She thinks through the steps and stages that brought them together last night, the quiet walk back along the beach, the rawness of him after his revelation about thinking he might have killed someone. Alice’s own immediate and completely instinctive certainty that he was wrong, that those big, soft hands could never have hurt anyone and that she is not making a mistake letting him into her life.
BRUH DON’T TELL ME THIS GUY IS MARK OHHH MY GOODNESS GREAT. JUST FREAKING GREAT. UNBELIEVABLE AND I REALLY THOUGHT IT WAS GRAY TOO ☹️