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 Cary probably knows Eva is sleeping with Gideon again. Gideon sneaked into Eva's room as Entwined opened. It appears he spent the whole night, judging by in Chapter Two he woke up in her bed. Cary's still home recovering from the Nathan beating.  Cary might not know the whole truth yet either about Nathan. As much for his own sake as their's, it'd be smart to keep Cary in the dark. Less of a chance the cops could try to question him if they even suspected he might know something. Gideon had kept Eva in the dark herself for the very same reason.  So a possible scenario where Cary might come to some serious wrong conclusions: just like the last time (the Wednesday night before Nathan died) Gideon let himself into Eva's room, f****** her all night, then rejected her yet again. Poor Eva's getting jerked around by a guy Cary's always had mixed feelings about to begin with, from the first date at the advocacy dinner that went badly (over Gideon's head trip) to the most recent few weeks of Eva walking around with her broken into a million pieces.

 With a supreme show of will, Gideon can act like he doesn't care Eva's even in the room. He did it in front of a bunch of people, including her boss, in the middle of an important business meeting. (This was the Thursday that Nathan died, and the business meeting was in the afternoon.)

Maybe with people thinking the real reason Gideon and Eva broke up was Brett, not Corrine, then Gideon won't have to "see" Corrine anymore just for the benefit of the cops. He could either tell the truth (he went to Corrine as a friend) or he could now "dump" Corrine as things not having worked out. Â From a cop point of the view, the "dump" is a more convincing argument. Because if he saw Corrine as just a "friend", someone could argue he was still sitting around in love with Eva. But if he ran to Corrine as "rebound girlfriend" and started "dating" people could say he really had made up his mind he didn't want Eva anymore -- made up his mind while Nathan was still very much alive. Â Would this be mean to Corrine, who has been deluding herself into thinking she actually IS Gideon's girlfriend, even if Gideon wouldn't admit it to himself? Yes. But Corrine has only herself to blame. 1. She relentlessly chased Gideon, not the other way around. 2. She tried leading Eva to believe Gideon was sleeping with her, something that caused a lot of trouble between Eva and Gideon -- so it's poetic justice Gideon allowed Corrine to believe they going somewhere.

Seriously, though -- Gideon asked Eva to trust him blindly about Corrine back when Gideon was behaving in a way (lying by omission to Eva) that gave Eva every single good reason to NOT trust him. But on her own, facing her own inner demons while Gideon still was lying to her, Eva herself came to trust Gideon wasn't sleeping with Corrine and never would again. Â Now Gideon, by his own doing, is forced into a position where he's got to trust Eva about Brett. No matter what Brett tries to say or tries to do to win Eva back, Gideon has got to trust none of it will work. And now Gideon's got the scarier task, because Gideon knows a part of Eva does want to jump Brett's bones, while Eva is safe knowing Gideon doesn't desire Corrine at all. Â Great growth opportunity for Gideon to work on his own inner demons about insecurity and jealousy.

 Brett could actually end up being the solution to Gideon and Eva's biggest problem of all -- the cops.  If word gets out Eva kissed Brett (and the tabloids blow that into lies Eva cheated on Gideon) then it makes much stronger the lie Gideon rejected Eva. Why would Gideon kill some guy over a woman who cheated on him?  Right now, the lie is Corrine fought hard to win him back, so he picked his former fiancee over his new girlfriend. It'd look even more convincing that Gideon broke up with Eva for cheating on him and then ran back to Corrine. The cops would have to drop any attempt to try to argue what actually is the truth -- Gideon "conveniently dumped" Eva as part of premeditation.  Maybe that's what will finally make the cops back off.Â

Irony alert  Gideon took Corrine as his "date" to a very carefully orchestrated publicity event for a company he owns outright, Kingsman Vodka, including making sure there were extremely orchestrated pictures with his arm around Corrine, having a great time.  Snippet ten gives us a glimpse of what appears to be a very carefully orchestrated publicity event for Vidal Records. Eva's there -- so is her "ex." Brett. Safe to say media is there (that's the whole point of PR events.) Seems to be that someone's about to get a candid picture of Brett and Eva next to one another.  HAH!!!  And as an added bonus, people will read Gideon was there too. Gideon who is nothing more (to the world) than an "ex-boyfriend of Eva" as well. But the huge difference is, Brett can tell the whole world he's trying to win Eva back. If Gideon and Eva are still keeping their love secret, then Gideon's gotta keep his public mouth shut. He can't even complain to Brett, let alone punch Brett. Nor can he retaliate in any financial way toward Brett -- that'd show jealousy, which in turn would give the cops evidence Gideon in fact does still love Eva.  Double HAH!!!!  And yes, I am being snarky a bit -- but Gideon so horribly handled the whole way he made the world think he didn't love Eva, handled it so badly Eva herself believed it. Gideon's control-freak plan began to unravel from day one  -- and it's continuing to spin off beyond his control at a time when more than ever, he'd want to lay public claim to Eva he's gotta let the whole world believe she's free for the taking and Mr. Rebound Brett is first in line to try to win her.

P.S. Mrs. M -- back on page 40 this morning, I did one of my detailed analysis of facts about why I think Brett was a huge exception to how Gideon fights, not the rule. Â Bottom line: Gideon could hit Nathan once or stab Nathan once because Gideon was staying stone-cold. Eva didn't want the guy -- quite the opposite, the sicko absolutely repulsed her. Gideon red-handed caught a naked, leering, drugged out guy inches from touching Eva in her living room. Eva most certainly didn't want the guy. Gideon landed just one punch. Â Eva very obviously sexually desired Brett, and Gideon caught her red handed engaging in the first step toward sex, passionate kissing. That's why Gideon went nuts -- and he kept going nuts because Brett fought back. Symbolically, Brett was literally fighting Gideon over Eva herself for who got to have control of Eva's body and heart. Â Inside that concert, Gideon put his hand up Eva's skirt. Brett sang her a love song for all the world to hear. Gideon on some level must have feared "Brett won."

 Gideon can turn stone cold and shut himself right down, in business situations, in personal situations -- he'd even done it with Eva. I think Angus more than anyone has witnessed Gideon shut himself down physically in situations of anger. Angus is the only person around who has seen Gideon lose his temper from childhood to present-day. And though Angus is a bodyguard, he's well aware Gideon is highly trained in mixed martial arts, and therefore has control over the hands and feet that are in fact weapons.

  We'll agree to disagree most respectfully Mrs. M. Along with GiGi, you're one of my favorite frequent-flier commenters.  I'm a former newspaper reporter who for many years specialized in the cops and court beat. It was a daily newspaper, and so every murder I covered was soup to nuts including sitting through the entire trials for cases that actually went to trial.  And so I saw prosecutors sometimes make the mistake of bringing to trial cases they ought not to have tried.  The most common mistake was because no matter how big the pile of evidence, it all was circumstantial. The prosecution was convinced they could meet the burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. The defense, knowing the case was circumstantial, decided to roll the dice rather than take a deal.  The rock solid cases all got plea bargained. On average, I saw about 90% of cases settle by being plead out. Usually by offering a murder one case a murder two deal, so that the defendant might get parole some day. In one instance, offering murder one in place of capital murder (cop killing) so the defendant would avoid the death penalty.  In all those years of court, I saw only two defendants who actually were innocent of causing the death of another person (negligent homicide in both) go to trial. Both times, the prosecution lost. Every other defendant I saw go to trial was I saw was in fact guilty, and both sides decided to roll the dice with a jury. More often than not, the prosecution would win. But sometimes they really blew it.  Hands down the biggest reason a prosecutor refused to drop a case was because it was a high profile case. Once the reporters got involved, the prosecution stuck to its guns.

 Yep, Cary is on Team Brett. I called that last week.   I'll bet Cary talked Eva into going to some big music industry event in Times Square, on the pretext it'd be good for Cary's career. This possible isn't an outright Vidal Records event, because Eva may not have gone if that actually were the case. It's possible Vidal Records has a tent at some larger event. I'll bet Brett tracked down Cary via the Internet the same way Brett did with Eva. He found Eva as listed on the website of the advertising agency. It'd be easy to track down Cary through the modelling agency representing him. I'll bet Cary knew beforehand Brett was coming to the event. Heck, Cary probably conspired with Brett to make sure Eva was there too.  And Christopher Jr. is about to find out that Eva is Golden. I'm certain that's what comes next.

I put this in the spoiler thread, but re-posting it here:  http://www.sylviaday.com/2013/03/27/entwined-snippet-10/ The server will crash shortly due to fans rushing there, so here's the text. BRETT IS BACK!!!!!  Brett smiled. “Don’t go anywhere.†He bounded off. Cary and I walked over to the tent bearing the Vidal Records logo. Protected from the crowds by private security, it was a tiny oasis in the madness of Times Square. “Well, baby girl, you’ve got your hands full with him. I forgot how it was with you two.†“Was being the operative word,†I pointed out. “He’s different from before,†he went on. “More… settled.†“That’s great for him. Especially with all that’s going on in his life right now.†He scoped me out. “Aren’t you even the slightest bit interested in seeing if he can still bang you brainless?†I shot him a look. “Chemistry is chemistry. And I’m sure he’s had plenty of chances to bone up on his already fabulous skills.†“Bone up, ha! That’s punny.†He waggled his brows at me. “You seem solid.†“Ah, now that would be an illusion.†“Well, look who’s here,†he murmured, turning my attention to Gideon, who was approaching with Ireland at his side. “And heading straight toward us. If there’s a brawl over you, I’m watching from the bleachers.†I shoved at him. “Thanks.â€

http://www.sylviaday.com/2013/03/27/entwined-snippet-10/ The server will crash shortly due to fans rushing there, so here's the text. BRETT IS BACK!!!!!  Brett smiled. “Don’t go anywhere.†He bounded off. Cary and I walked over to the tent bearing the Vidal Records logo. Protected from the crowds by private security, it was a tiny oasis in the madness of Times Square. “Well, baby girl, you’ve got your hands full with him. I forgot how it was with you two.†“Was being the operative word,†I pointed out. “He’s different from before,†he went on. “More… settled.†“That’s great for him. Especially with all that’s going on in his life right now.†He scoped me out. “Aren’t you even the slightest bit interested in seeing if he can still bang you brainless?†I shot him a look. “Chemistry is chemistry. And I’m sure he’s had plenty of chances to bone up on his already fabulous skills.†“Bone up, ha! That’s punny.†He waggled his brows at me. “You seem solid.†“Ah, now that would be an illusion.†“Well, look who’s here,†he murmured, turning my attention to Gideon, who was approaching with Ireland at his side. “And heading straight toward us. If there’s a brawl over you, I’m watching from the bleachers.†I shoved at him. “Thanks.â€

 Corrine tried figuratively to make Gideon chase her all those years ago. She broke off the engagement, in order to force Gideon to fight for her. It was the biggest mistake of her life -- years later, she still regrets he never chased her.  The first time (and only time) Corrine has ever seen Gideon with Eva was at the fundraiser. Where she literally saw Gideon chase Eva when Eva fled -- that on top of literally fighting for Eva when another man (Lucas) was trying to take Eva away from the table and buy Eva a drink.  And I'm sure as soon as Gideon tore out the door, Magdalene, who had eavesdropped on the entire dinner, including the fight, would have told Corrine that in all the long years Magdalene has known Gideon, he had NEVER chased a woman before, despite several of them pulling just that sort of drama stunt.. Certainly, Magdalene told Eva herself on the phone the next day that Eva is the only woman she ever saw Gideon chase.  Watching Gideon run away from the dinner to go after Eva, and then being told on the spot by a "frenemy" Gideon has never ever chased a woman like that is what I believe made Corrine snap. She walked into that dinner a "good person" and walked out a "desperate woman." Who started fighting dirty for Gideon the very next day.

 Sylvia clarified Snapshot 2 tied directly to a snippet, not a holiday. Snippet 2 is Eva and Gideon waking up together in bed, with Eva joking that waking up to him is like waking up to presents on Christmas morning. Given how early in the book it is, I'm guessing chapter two is them waking up together at her place the morning after they secretly got back together at the end of Reflected/start of Entwined.

Monica walked away from her first husband (Barker) because she believed her child was abused. More importantly, Monica took immediate action to protect her child by divorcing the biological father of Eva's rapist. And as part of making sure Monica could financially take care of Eva (in the rich manner to which they are accustomed) she made sure she got a huge financial settlement ($7 million dollars, $5 million of that earmarked for Eva.) Â Elizabeth thought her child was a liar. Judging by things she said to Eva (such as Christopher-Jr.-was-there-too) Elizabeth still firmly believes Gideon's abuse was one fat lie. Remember, too, the abuser wasn't a family member. No matter what comes out in the wash now, with Eva vowing to Dr. Lucas that she (Eva) is going to uncover the truth, IÂ doubt Elizabeth will ever believe Gideon. And I doubt Elizabeth will ever leave the man who quickly rescued her after her first husband left her literally penniless.

 Cary quit doing drugs as a result of getting help from Dr. Travis, just like Eva quit being promiscuous. But lately, Cary has been in a precarious spot where drugs are concerned, and I'm worried he might start using again. Consider this:  During the orgy, Cary was drunk and at least one of the other participants (the other guy) was high. Near the very end of Reflected, Eva had to remind Cary he can't drink while on his prescription pain pills (in fact, Eva made a point of bringing home sparkling cider instead.) Cary himself knew, and admitted openly to Eva, that the pain pills were high risk.  Sadly, it's not uncommon that people who successfully stop using drugs addictively end up relapsing over medically-necessary pain meds - that they don't stop taking the pills once they're not needed anymore. Because addiction has gotten them by the throat again. If this happens to Cary, he'll need Eva (and Dr. Travis) now more than ever.

Eva's not the only one with raging insecurity and jealousy issues (which, thank God, she's changed for the better by the end of Reflected.) If anything, Gideon's worse. It shows in his possessive nature of women -- even Corrine got a taste of that a decade ago, when she and Gideon were together. And even deeper down inside, he believes he's not worthy of love. Pretty much the difference between Eva and Gideon is the way they react when jealous and insecure. Eva freaks out and/or does something to get even. Gideon shuts down and turns ice cold.  Keeping this in mind, here's my theories on why Gideon kept hitting and kicking Brett -- that the length of time Gideon kept it up was an aberration for Gideon. His normal way was just like we saw with the naked leering guy approaching Eva in her living room - one punch. In his office with Nathan, just one punch or slap (or maybe threw Nathan over the couch, then picked Nathan up by the front of his shirt, which is how the couch got moved and Gideon got blood on one cuff.)  Here's my case on why I think Brett was different, not normal, for Gideon's way of fighting. It was because of what caused the fight:  With his own eyes, Gideon saw Brett and Eva passionately kissing -- Eva was kissing back. It was obvious she sexually desires Brett. Eva is the only woman Gideon has ever loved, so that kiss would have made Gideon feel jealous and insecure like he's never ever felt in his life. Gideon may have already known Brett meant something to Eva even before Gideon heard the song "Golden." In any case, by the end of the concert Gideon knew for certain. If Gideon had known before the concert, he would have been jealous going in and paranoid Eva was hiding Brett from him in retaliation for him having hidden Corrine's existence from her. Remember, Eva asked Gideon to go, not the other way around. (He couldn't have know Eva hadn't a clue she was going to see Brett.) I'll bet this jealousy is why Gideon made love to Eva quietly in the middle of the concert itself. To remind her of what they have together. Gideon may have felt Brett singing that love song about Eva as his finale song during concerts  was Brett's public way of trying to get Eva back (and that's actually true - Brett was out there hoping some day, Eva would show up at one of his concerts.) The fact Eva was now kissing Brett would have looked like Brett was succeeding. Brett with his love song won out over Gideon's hand up Eva's skirt. Brett was fighting back, which Gideon would have interpreted as Brett fighting FOR Eva, not defending himself. Brett was trying to lay claim to Eva by now literally fighting for her. The jealous male in Gideon would have been further enraged. Gideon was probably trying to make Brett "cry uncle" by Brett backing down first. However, physically the two men were a match for one another.  I think Gideon was the one who backed off instead of Brett. What probably finally got Gideon to put the leash back onto his temper was he remembered he himself was a major celebrity -- and the guy he was fighting was a rising celebrity. Seriously hurt Brett and the cops (then the tabloids) were gonna find out.  By the time the fight was over and then Gideon joined Eva in the back of him limo, Gideon was shut down cold as ice. He started out being sexually cruel to Eva, keeping it up until Eva said (with good reason) Gideon was treating her like a w**** (that's when something flashed in his eyes). But did Gideon stop even then? Nope, he kept it up until he finally got Eva to "cry uncle" by admitting the whole reason she even kissed Brett was really her insecurity (over Corrine) not her desire for Brett.  You know me, always looking for red flags. What about Monica reminding Eva, after she saw a bruise on Gideon's face three days after the fight, to be careful about causing anything that would hurt Gideon's powerful image in any way. Eva herself was paranoid about hearing the naked guy Gideon punched in her living room wanted to press charges and so tried (in vain) to find out Gideon's identity. I'm viewing both Monica's warning to Eva and Eva herself being paranoid about the guy Gideon punched in her own living room as red flags the tabloids are going to find out Gideon and Brett fought -- literally fought -- over Eva.  The fact Gideon fought Brett so violently is a red herring designed to cleverly mislead us into thinking Gideon would be incapable of the supreme restraint it would have taken to stab Nathan just once. If Gideon could try to pound Brett into a pulp over just one kiss, how could Gideon do anything other than rip Nathan from limb to limb for being a rapist-stalker. Gideon needed to make sure no one ever found out - that's why. And not because Gideon was a celebrity. Because if he went to prison for the rest of his life, he'd lose Eva. Even if he was acquitted, he would have believed (wrongly) he'd lose Eva forever, her knowing he was a killer.

Last thing -- my guess is Gideon simply slapped Nathan across the mouth in response to something dirty Nathan said about Eva. Slapped him once. Thus the little bit of blood on Gideon's cuff. It'd taken supreme effort for Gideon to stop himself from doing worse -- but we know Gideon can keep a leash on himself. Gideon would have known Eva would have found out about those rape photos before the day was out if Nathan was carried out of the Crossfire on an ambulance stretcher.  And Gideon -- who remember, is a celebrity -- would have been charged with assault and battery -- so the whole world would have soon found out about Eva's deep secret. Given how deeply ashamed Gideon is of his own deep secret, the last thing he'd ever want is someone finding out about Eva's -- find out through Gideon's own fault, because Gideon hadn't been able to stop himself from going postal. Gideon can stop himself from losing it -- and he did. For Eva's sake.  Remember too, what did Gideon do in response to some naked drugged out guy approaching Eva right in front of him (the interrupted orgy?) Punch the guy just once.  So don't assume that just because Gideon tried to beat Brett into a pulp that he does it to every guy? Gideon caught Eva passionately kissing Brett. Eva wanted Brett. Eva never wanted that leering naked guy in her living room and she most certainly did not want Nathan. She did want Brett. That's why Gideon went postal. Jealousy. Not anger.

Couple of quick points:  DAs still bring to trial high profile cases that blow up in their faces because in the end, the jury doesn't buy it. The Casey Anthony case is a prime example. You'd have thought that after O.J., no prosecutor would ever dare again bring an ultra high-profile murder case based purely on circumstantial evidence. Fact is they still do it all the time. Because they think they can win, even on circumstantial evidence. But they lose the case. Doesn't stop the next prosecutor from making the same d*** mistake when he/she has a case that's gonna fill the spectator area of the trial courtroom with journalists.  Why did everyone keep Nathan secret? Because he had rape photos and video of Eva, that's why. I think the only reason Monica ultimately even ended up telling Eva about the what essentially was Nathan's homemade child p*** of Eva was because Eva was now bound to find out from the cops. Nathan had been murdered and the cops had tried to start questioning Eva even before Monica herself. Monica had every reason to believe the cops would question Eva again, very soon and in much greater detail, down at the police station as soon as Eva had a lawyer. Monica wanted Eva to hear the horrible truth from herself, not be blindsided by some detective in an interview room.

C'mon, Shawna keep what happened all to herself? No way!!! She'd have told her brother and her brother's all-but-husband every gory detail. She wouldn't be doing it to be catty, and I doubt she would have run around blabbing to everyone. But to family? Oh heck yes.

If anyone will push Corrine over an edge, it'd be Christopher Jr. Who is probably already at work effing with her mind in order to try to ruin (so he thinks) Gideon's chances of marrying Corrine. Â Christopher is the guy who took shameless advantage of Magdalene's sexually-frustrated obsession with becoming Gideon's wife some day. And from the day Gideon started seeing Eva, Christopher has constantly been trying to find weak spots with Eva in order to exploit -- just because Eva had been Gideon's girlfriend.

 He'd never sell out Eva literally. Nor ever deliberately trash Eva. But he's possibly a terrible gossip surrounded by other beautiful people who also are terrible gossips and who sometimes may pump him for inside info on the deal between his socialite roommate and her celebrity boyfriend.

I'm not making the mistake of thinking that Corrine must be normal, or even better that lesser mortals, just because she's stunningly beautiful, polished, comes from money and could have her pick of any man. And so she's not going to settle for anything less than worship from Gideon -- and that she's about to walk because after only a few weeks of seeing her again, Gideon has not yet proven his desire by making her his lover.   Truth of the matter is judging by the way she desperately chases Gideon, she's got even less self esteem on a good day than Eva on a bad one. This is a woman who devoted three desperate years chasing Gideon -- to get him to even go out with her, then to sleep with her, then agree to marry her. Finally after three years, she threw down an ultimatum "start spending the whole night with me or I walk." She quit chasing -- and that's how she lost him. Biggest mistake of her life, she believes. Now she's chasing again, desperately chasing. The last thing she'd do right now is "prove you want me by making love to me or else I walk." Corrine is dysfunctional. So is the beautiful, polished, comes from money Eva -- though Eva has gotten help for it and thus made progress, she's still hot mess as the result of having been brutally victimized when she was. young. Gideon, who is ultimately hot and insanely rich is an even hotter mess because of the same sort of demons. Who knows what demons drive Corrine to avoid looking inward and instead focus all her attention outward on chasing another human being just out of her reach. Who has always been just out of reach. I think the very fact Gideon still is just out of reach is what will continue to make Corrine keep trying desperately now to land him. In her own twisted way, she probably believes that if only she tries hard enough, she will finally reach him, and getting him will magically fix what's broken inside of her, making her life perfect. An all too common dysfunctional way certain codependent people self-sabotage their own relationships and their own lives.  She's in the same lather-rinse-repeat cycle she started a decade ago:  she if she chases, the same thing will happen: Gideon will openly make her his girlfriend, then he will sleep with her, and ultimately he will marry her. It could take months to become the girlfriend/lover and maybe a couple of years to become the wife, but she'll wait.

 You're going to love the books on Audible. There's so much you pick up by listening that jumps out while being read aloud!!!!  One of the reasons I know the books so well is I've both listened and read. I read first, then listened while I was out walking/jogging.

 If it turns out he didn't do it, I'm going to be eating crow for breakfast on June 5, having stayed up all night reading Entwined.  But seriously, there are some posters on the forum, especially GiGi, who have some excellent alternate theories. It's a lot of fun discussing theories. Our Crossfire fixes until June.  But I understand some people want someone else to have done it because they can't bear the thought of blood on Gideon's hands. Not our hero, oh no!  I seriously wish the guy hadn't taken the law into his own hands. And he needs to be kicked in the a** big time for being so cruel to Eva those weeks as part of his big cover story.  But bottom line -- Nathan probably would have kidnapped Eva, raped her brutally while videotaping the whole thing, murdered her in a particularly gruesome way (snap her neck like her pet cat, or maybe bludgeon her to death with that bat he used on Cary?), taken trophy pictures of her corpse and then dumped her body somewhere it would have never been found. And used the millions he got through blackmail (Monica and Stanton were ready to pay near the end of Reflected) to leave the country, never to be found nor punished.  Gideon, Monica, Victor, Cary, would have spent the rest of their lives broken, wondering where she was, if she was even alive, but fearing she probably was dead. Worse, if her body was found and they all knew how horribly she died, well Gideon would have probably followed her into the grave himself soon after, killing himself. Not only because life meant nothing with her gone -- he'd have blamed himself for having tried to keep Nathan being in New York a secret from her, a secret that got her killed. Monica would have hated herself forever. Victor would have hated them all. So would have Cary, and he'd have probably turned back to the drugs -- he'd have also ended up dead at a young age.  So whoever killed the sicko deserves a handshake, not handcuffs. I think Gideon did it to save Eva.  He's not proud of it. In fact, he was terrified Eva would ever find out. All of that awful stuff he'd done to her was all so she'd never find out and so when it was safe, he could go back to her. But the cops told her anyway. And when he sneaked into her apartment to see her early in Entwined (both the book excerpt and the special New Year's snippet that gave us our only look inside his head), he was sick with worry the fact she now knew meant he'd lost her forever. But she's relieved that beast who tortured her as a girl and stole her innocence is gone forever. And she's standing by her man.