Adam's eyes dropped to his coffee, taking a sip before he continued, then staring in its depths.

"Never sharing someone I loved, never not...speaking up when I had the chance, when it was real, but. Then they locked me away, her husband and his friends, just when I was set to beg her to leave him, if that's what it took." Or command. "And I lost her. And now? Everything has changed. The world changed while I sat in a cell in a basement, unchanging no matter what they did to me there. So, now that certainty is gone, and I just...am willing to accept whatever I can get on the off chance that someday it will be more. At the very least, then, I am not completely alone."