Jamie looked at me then, and I saw the boy I met at Leoch. The one who was flogged for my sake. The one who believed honor was a currency that could not be debased.
“Who…?” William breathed.
“He has your stubbornness,” I said, laying a hand on his shoulder. “He cut his hand on a broken bottle at Helwater and refused to cry. I watched from the kitchen window. You were mending a fence. You both bled, and neither of you made a sound.” outlander s07 m4b
Jamie’s throat worked. He could have said a thousand things. I am your father. I loved your mother. I have carried your name in my bones like a splinter of glass. Jamie looked at me then, and I saw the boy I met at Leoch
“He will come to find you,” I said.
“You are none of those things,” I said. “You are a man who made an impossible choice to keep him safe. And one day, he will understand. Not today. Perhaps not even this year. But time… time has a way of folding back on itself, Jamie. You taught me that.” “Who…