Ryan went back to sit next to his sleeping lover before he began to read the letter that Aiden wrote to his grandmother.
"Dear Grandma,
by the time this letter reaches you, I hope that you are fully recovered and preparing to go back home with me.
There are a few things that I need to confess to you. I should have told you these things five years ago, which is exactly the time I wrote this letter, but Grandma, I am so sorry; I did not dare to say them out loud."
"Grandma, the truth is that I have lied to you about the treatment money.
In order to fund your treatment, I agreed to sell my blood to vampires.
It was not until you demanded to know the origin of the money that I was forced to go back to Arbyshire to ask for Dad's help to cover up my lies.
He refused to, but Alain agreed to do it in his stead."
"And then, there were some complications at White Chapel that brought me to Ryan Caldwell.