ALEX could feel his eyes getting wet while kissing his wife. The walls he built just vanished seeing how Pepper wanted to win him back. He could feel his own pain ebbing away. He had been an asshole since their marriage. His own pain was intensified for restraining himself from getting near her. When all his life he wanted her to be this close. Fine, he's giving up his revenge. He's tired of hating his wife. It's impossible hurting her without him feeling worse.
And now that he is holding her and kissing her like his life depended on it, he is certain that he is still in love with his wife - profoundly, deeply, madly, desperately in love. He does not care about anything anymore. He is too tired of fighting his own feelings. He loves her despite of everything that went between them and in
