“I can see why you were so determined not to leave when I was being such a d**k,” Silver said slowly. “I understand what you meant when you said that you were done with men telling you what to do and think.”
“I’d made up my mind to stay,” she said simply. “I had just finally started to trust myself and to make my own decisions again, and I wasn’t going to back down from that. Not for you, not for anyone.”
“You have such guts, baby. The heart of a goddamn warrior.” He hesitated. “You put me to shame.”
“Shame?”
“Yeah. I can’t imagine what happened to you, what you’ve been through.”
“We’ve all been through something, Silver.” She spoke carefully, knowing that she was treading on dangerous ground here, inching out on thin ice on her belly. She knew that he had something on his mind and on
