Truth.
It had an extremely dangerous ring to it.
Rightly so. After all this time…after everything they just went through, she had a right to know the truth. To *expect* the truth.
More than a right.
An outright demand.
She nearly gave her life without ever truly knowing him.
To have the audacity to say anything otherwise was unthinkable.
And yet, here. Now. Their first real conversation after her recovery, he was about to do the unthinkable. She could see it in his eyes from the moment he sat her down in the drizzling rain.
“Lois, will you marry me?”
