Grace's POV.
Rhyder and I spent a few more hours talking about all the things that had happened between him and Alexis in the years that I had been gone.
It wasn't an easy conversation to have.
Some of the things he told me, I wished that I'd never heard - they weren't things that I wanted to know.
I got to know a part of Rhyder that I never even imagined could exist.
But by the time he stopped talking, I was glad that he trusted me enough to be so open and honest with me about everything that he had done and who he had to become just to survive.
We were sitting on the porch outside our room - Tate was inside fast asleep, his one arm flailing off of the mattress with his mouth half open and a lock of curls drooping over his handsome little face.
Rhyder was leaning forward in his cha
