"I don't expect you to forgive me." Not period and especially not right away. It was part of why he had held back with telling Mick more, because the last thing they'd needed was for things to be even more complicated. Yet here they were and there was no taking it back.

Leonard was dead and somewhere inside him was fear of that reality and closer to the surface, always, guilt over what and whom he left behind. "It ain't right."