Both her hands flew up to cover her mouth. In shock, she watched his shoulders shake. He was weeping. She spoke her astonished thought aloud. ‘I never heard a man say such words. I didn’t think one could.’ In one shattering instant, her basic concept of men was reordered. She didn’t have to hammer Reyn with words or break him with unflinching accusations. He could admit he was wrong. Not like my father, the traitor thought whispered. She refused to follow it.
