Addy watched as Arwen hugged Deidre and rubbed her back. Near the end of dinner, as the young woman was eating her peach cobbler, she suddenly broke down in tears. He admitted, he was comfortable with a lot of things but poor Deidre sobbing over one more birthday her parents missed due to their murders was not an event he was relaxed in observing.
He considered it was damn good thing Arwen had admitted to killing the group who had killed her aunt and uncle because he would have been hard-pressed to stop himself from finding every last one of them and avenging the deaths of two people he didn’t know. He watched Deidre sniff against Arwen’s shoulder and give him an embarrassed look.
He stood and began clearing the table and paused behind Deidre and pressed a gentle kiss to the top of her h
