Her words struck a chord deep within him. His heart, which had been so calm and steady, began to pound violently, and with it came wave after wave of heartache.
He'd been in here for days, and besides Archie Lockwood occasionally stopping by to gloat, no one else had come to see him.
Even his own mother was nowhere to be found.
But he didn't care. He had never had anyone he was attached to, and there was certainly no one he wanted to see.
'And he had figured as much. This woman... she hadn't come to see him for so long. She probably heard he'd been arrested and just ran off. After all, what they had was just a transaction. There were no feelings involved.'
But now, this woman was telling him that twelve years was nothing; she could wait.
It felt as though something between them had changed. He wasn't sure what it was, but his heart was suddenly filled to the brim with an inexplicable, bittersweet sorrow...
