She should have also realized, though, that the difficulty lay deeper. She should have put the clues together: his acute sensibility, his mistrust of women, his edginess in his family home, his bitterness toward his mother, the portrait of his forbidding father, and Dain’s contradictory behavior toward Jessica herself. She’d known—hadn’t every instinct told her?—he badly needed her, needed something from her. He needed what every human being needed: love.
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