God, he love her. He had to make him believe her. He had felt that he wanted to, he had felt the anger drip away from her when they had kissed, but then suddenly she had turned stiff again and pulled away from him.
All the different angles and ways they had come at the decision together did not ever include it the word for had he once said it, avowed that he did loveher, loved Sheri Fisher, then it all would have been transformed.