She healed all that hurt him.

Her ethics spread through his troubled mind clearing it, and her compassion soothed his wounded heart. Her slightest touch calmed him. He could trust her.

By society's rules she was extremely forbidden to him, yet he was irresistibly attracted to her. Despite the thousands of people he had met, none were like her. No one's rules were going to keep him from her. He could not get enough of her. She changed his life and him. He had become the better man she thought he could be. Now he wanted that life with her in it. He decided he would do whatever it took to accomplish this. He would do anything to make her and her son safe and happy with him, anywhere that might be.

This was the most important task of his life.

He called her to meet him for breakfast at the Lyric Diner.