"Your feelings about...him?" Aedan frowned. "I don't discount them. I can't...you loved him and I knew it was coming. I'd never say you couldn't love him, or leave to do it. I said I dreaded it and hoped to stave it off long as I could, but..."
But he'd seen through that whole year the ways in which Moriarty mattered far, far more.
"I'd never hold you back from them. It's why I didn't try. If you're upset I didn't fight for you...it's because I didn't know I'd have a shot in Hell. Not...you'll admit it's weird, finding out you weren't deeply in love with him, considering this whole time you've acted like. It's a major mind fuck and doesn't add up with what I saw, Sherr, but there's always a few sides to things, right?"
He might as well just see if they could try to reach some kind of...something.
"I'll believe you felt different than you indicated."