... They have not rejected you, for you are different to them, as you are now. Enough for it to mean something.

[ He lives in their house, and can doubt them still? Still... she understands this as well. This persistent worry or fear that what good remains of the present might slip away, and then what?

But it is painful, too. ]

Do not... take that for granted, Ardyn. You would know for certain if they felt another way. If no matter what you said or did was... not enough, even for the present.