His rage is as intense as my pain as he relives what he saw, and I know he must have seen enough to react this way. Maybe he didn’t watch them all or flick through every image, but he saw more than he wanted to. That would change any decent human’s opinion of the girls in that room of memories. That would leave a mark, even on someone like Alexi.

He may be a monster on many levels, but he is not a paedophile or a violent abuser of women. The things Rick kept would scar anyone who ...