Athena blanches. She’s never had anyone get so blunt with her about her own feelings before.

“That’s... not....”

Norie. Jeff. Mel. Cam. Even JJ, brat that she could be. They were family, even more family than her coven had been. Unlike her coven, they hadn’t ditched her in a jail cell with a federal crime hanging over her head. Norie had been the one to get her out, even back when she wanted Athena in the system more than she wanted her in the spare bedroom that’s just her room now. Athena bites her lips together.

“I mean, I guess, yeah.”