With her clarification it made a little more sense to the dark man. “Thought you meant Crow’s Crossin’. Of course she wanted to come back here, she had friends here that cared about her and she wasn't treated poorly.” There were many other things that if Kajika thought back to every conversation he'd ever had with Des he could list them. At this particular time he felt it unnecessary. Right now Namir was here for something and he wasn't exactly sure what it was just yet.
‘The price she paid’, those words stuck in his more than anything else that Namir had said. It caused the man to worried that something horrific had happened to Des and Namir was the result of it. It would explain at least in his eyes why she had left the girl behind. She said something else though that contradicted his previous thought, “He's not your father?” Another thought occurred to the cove alpha, “Maybe she couldn't take you because whether you told or not he would have been certain to come after her.” If Namir was the price.
He didn't really know why he was trying to figure this out beside it seemed the longer the girl talked the more it felt like she was trying to understand why she had been left.
“I don't think it is at all. The only one who knows for sure I'd she cared about you is her.” And unfortunately they couldn't ask Des how she felt. It was in that moment he wished that Des would have told him of Naimr as he was fairly certain he would have asked why she'd left her. What was clear now was what Namir wanted to know.
“I don't know what she thought was so good about me,” he answered honestly, “I can tell you I was good to her and cared a lot about her, would have done anything for her. I'm just a regular guy who happened across her when I was new to this land we were friends and then I think we were starting to become more before she disappeared.” He didn't know if any of that would help Des's daughter in finding her answers but he wasn't sure what else to tell her besides, “I loved her but she never knew.”