"I don't see any of that as being your fault. Your life has been hard, Erik. It's made you...different, but you're learning. You're already a much better man, darling. You just need someone to teach you the way no one ever has." She closed her eyes and gave a content sound at his kiss, resting her hands between them so she could entwine her fingers with his, his warm breath hitting her face. "Gustave will understand. And you will not be that same person when he is old enough to know. You will only be his father whom he adores.
"I've forgiven you for the past, Erik. And I know you think I shouldn't have, but I don't want to linger on such things. I want a new life," Christine admitted to him, kissing his hand with her soft lips. "Nothing else matters."