"Thank you." Even in a time like this, he could remember his manners. "It's not. The whole time I've been here, I wanted to get us home. And now that he's gone...I wish he was here."

Was that selfish? It felt selfish. It had just as much to do with wanting to protect Ronan as it did missing him. Adam knew he couldn't protect Ronan from everything, that he had to live his own life and go through whatever the world had in store for him, but Adam didn't want him to end up dead, either.