At her words. Memories of Hycinth floated through my mind…her barely able to get out of bed and the haunted look in her dead eyes. I shook my head sadly. “Hycinth may have had the willpower to walk away, but what good is it when she’s left miserable without him?”

Sydney studied my expression. “Hycinth really wants to come back?”

Bringing my other knee up, I rested both elbows on them and nodded. “She’d been making strides…grieving and facing the past. I hoped it would only be a matter of time before she was strong enough to make the decision on her own, and I think she was getting there...