He was so completely heartbroken by what had happened to his brother that he would have walked on hot coals if he thought that it would make Theo happy. Out of the little information that I could wrest from Rick over the past twenty months that we have been married, I thought that you would have given up on him because you couldn't cope with his deafness. "But I didn't even know he was deaf until now." She coughed brutally and Noa brushed her hair reassuringly. "Why did you give up on him?" Noa asked gently. "I wouldn't have done it of my own accord. I love him. .. loved...