"Maybe not, but - you didn't have to say anything at all, if that's the case." But this had been his life, at least before the island, and he's sharing it with her, the same way she had with him months before, when he was only an open ear and a trustworthy friend then.

Her eyes light up with the next few words out of his mouth, and she slowly winds her arms around his middle, tipping her head back to look up at him. "My lips are sealed."