She wanted desperately to ask why that spike of gladness was leavened so strongly with fear, but she’d dumped enough on this poor woman already. Better not to shove the whole empath thing in her face too soon. “One can never have enough friends,” she said instead, managing a smile of her own. “Especially these days.”
Lex felt as if Summer was reading her thoughts. “You can say that out loud.” she said, her smile turning kind of sad now, remembering Magnus and how everything went wrong. How would Summer react if Lex told her she was in fact a witch?
“You want to at least talk about it? It’s on you pretty hard, I can tell. And I’m good at listening.” She reached out to offer a hug, then remembered and pulled back a little. “We can go sit in the park, away from anybody else.”