Looking into his eyes could melt the coldest of hearts and she slid her lips across his tenderly in a thanks. She had everything to be grateful for when it came to him coming into her life.
"He won't have to go through what we did," she said softly, reaching up to take his hand. "I won't let him struggle on, going from one day to the next without family or roots to go back to. Real good ones, too."