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Оглавление“You’re a good mother,” he assured her. “You let him know you care about him, that he’s important to you. Not like my father...”
He hadn’t meant to say those last four words, but it was as if they had been ripped from the deepest part of his heart.
“Not like your father? What do you mean, Thorn?” she asked, her face puzzled, her eyes searching the depths of his gaze.
Perhaps it was time to get it out in the open. No wound could heal if it was left to fester.
“My birth cost my mother her health,” he told her. “She was never well afterward, and she died before I was old enough to remember her. She’d wanted to name me Thornton, after her father, but after she was gone, my father just called me Thorn. He made sure I knew it was because I was a thorn in his side...”
“Oh, Thorn!” she cried. And suddenly she had thrown her arms around him as she began to cry.
He was so astonished—and moved, because no one had found him worthy of weeping over before—that he could only wrap his arms around her and pull her close...
