"Ashira?"

"Sorry. I was just thinking about my father."

Rafael paused. "Don't get attached."

"To who?"

"Whom." Off my eye roll, he added. "Anyone."

I tossed Mrs. Hudson a treat. "Too late. I'm not being ousted from my life."

"Can you live with the consequences should you endanger your loved ones?"

I'd been through this with Priya on my last case. She'd been kidnapped because of me. I'd tried to remove myself from her life but she ...