"No relationship can work one-sidedly. You can follow your heart, but not to your detriment or to the detriment of the person willing to give you theirs."
Eamon fell into silence and nodded slowly.
The two just sat there in silence, and at some point tears began to flow from Eamon's eyes, but Leonel didn't leave.
The two sat there for a long while until Eamon's tears dried.
He wiped his cheeks and took a shuddering breath.
"… I know that I shouldn't like Cindra, or at least that's what she's told me. She said that she was forced to do a great many things to survive and get to where she is today, she's also much older than me, much wiser as well. In some ways she even raised me even though she was never my mother in a real sense.
"I knew that it was uncomfortable for her to see someone she had known as a little boy suddenly begin to pursue her like I did, and it was selfish on my part, I know that.
