The way the dress drapes from his arm cradling her legs as he holds her against him must trigger memories of happier times as they had moved the hives from the condo roof to the patch of sunny woodland... walks to the river and the scenic hideaway where one spring morning she had stripped him and lavished hours of attention on him just because...

The body he holds is slimmer of course. Almost boney. He must know Analise would have hated it. She makes him wait three heartbeats. And then a fourth and then opens her eyes slowly. Those are her eyes, aren't they? [And Anna's...]

"Wade?"