" The power burned through him, burned away all pretense, all the dark corners. Even the bespelled ones. Everything burned away, all the cobwebs hiding his secrets. He remembered it all. His mother. The fighting. Even attacking his wife. “How is it you manage to always forgive me?” he said. In that moment of closeness, she didn’t have to ask what he meant. “I love you. "

― Eve Langlais , Hell's King (Hell's Son, #3)