" When he wrapped his protective arms around me and placed a kiss on the top of my head, I expressed, “I love you,” for the first time into the side of his chest. Feeling as though he needed to hear me say it, more now than ever before. It was only then I truly understood why Damien never asked me about my nightmares… He didn’t have to. He lived them too. "

― M. Robinson , El Santo (Saint-Sinner, #1)