These months apart, something in him stopped and re-evaluated me for whatever reason, and I am yet to find out what happened in my absence. Something made him rethink bringing me back, and now it hits home that maybe he has started to believe he can trust me. I know he didn’t before. He told me as much. Sitting here, thinking this through, I realise that his whole opinion of what and who he thought I was has been altered. He wasn’t lying when he said it.

Alexi looks at me ...