Alex was grateful for such small, simple things that should be normal for a person his age. Yet he had never experienced them before crossing paths with Claire. No wonder he had wanted to leave his agency.
That did raise the question of why the others didn't though. People, even brainwashed ones, weren't robots. They were still human at their core.
Why hadn't anyone else defied orders and run away? And why hadn't poor Alex done it sooner? Claire didn't bother to ask him because he probably didn't know the answer. There wouldn't be a point.
She felt sorry for all of those people too. Having spent more time with him, she realized that Alex wasn't a bad person. He had been a victim of a rather bizarre and terrible set of circumstances. If anyone other than a hitman organization had picked him up as an infant, she was certain he would have been a good guy.
