Avery continued to hug his mother and father for over a minute before pulling back from them.
He could hear them faintly crying as well, and when he had moved slightly away to look at them, he saw that tears were streaming down their faces as well.
With all that had happened, the emotions between the three of them had burst out all at once upon seeing each other.
It had been stressful for all of them.
Avery may not have been in the thick of it like the two of them, but the ever-present worry had been eating away at him.
As for his parents, being hunted by dangerous criminals had been a nerve-wracking experience to say the least. Especially for Serena.
She had killed someone, and though she had forced herself to forget momentarily, the seal had already been pulled off on the past she never wanted to remember.
While she had done her best to put a lid back on her memories, they were less tightly locked up now.
