She might have been hiding it from him, but he could hear it in her voice, and it killed him that he'd made her cry.
He bit his lip, shutting his eyes. Because he didn't deserve her apology, not with the way he'd been acting. "Marian, I..." I'm scared. He couldn't even say the words to his wife. And he knew on some level that wasn't right, even if he didn't acknowledge it.