Ruthless Amnesia
And underneath that gentleness sat something immovable, something absolute, a message dressed up in kindness that left no room for negotiation at all.
I stood there in the study, the crumpled letter still between us on the desk, and understood with sudden, sinking clarity that whatever version of Rhys had woken up gentle and searching in that hospital bed, this was the shape his devotion had actually been growing toward the entire time.