““But I saw it. That was the problem—he couldn’t stop seeing it. Horrific, unthinkable images of the only woman he’d ever loved, reduced to a burnt corpse, tendrils of resinous smoke curling through her dark, fleshless ribcage. Her once-beautiful, flawless face transformed into a frightening messenger of tragedy: just a scorched and eyeless skull, all jaws and teeth. The tears. The pain. Gone in an instant. Killed by her worst fear.””
