It was kind of Rayden to come and talk to me, but I was torn between wanting to open up to him and feeling like I shouldn’t say a word. He was such a reasonable person, and he was the only one who could possibly understand what I was going through, but I wanted to talk to him about the man he had lost, and I think that would have been too painful and intimate for him to talk about. I had been surprised by it when he suggested we all consider finding a way to compromise because what he meant by that was that we should accept that our situation was complicated and that we just had to accept that. It made me wonder if he had made that suggestion as a man who would have given anything to get his own mate back, and that was one of the things that made me start giving the idea serious conside