Trace wrapped his arms around her when she climbed into the bed beside him and just hugged her as tightly as he could when he realized she was crying too. Words had never been his strength when he was face to face with someone under normal conditions and this was anything but normal conditions.
"I'm glad you're here," he whispered back to her. He hated why she'd had to come back but that didn't change how glad he was to have her there. "I keep hearing it in my head. The accident," he told her, the words spilling out of him before he even realized he was speaking.