Henry dropped his fork so that he could turn his hand over and take Iestyn’s hand into his. “Of course I would talk to you. I would tell you the second anything felt off. Especially now that this has happened. I just- I don’t want you to worry that I would try again, because I tried once before.”
He chewed on his lip before he added, “I thought about it for a second. Just the tiniest second, when we had to break up. And the very idea of it scared me so much, that was when I decided I needed to get my family back. And…maybe I went about that a weird way, but I did what I had to to keep myself safe.” If he could do that in a world where he thought he had to live without Iestyn, he could sure as hell do it when he had Iestyn beside him. “I told my therapist right away. I just really- I don’t want you to worry about me.”