Sean now felt even worse when he heard this. He'd loved this woman enough to share a home with her. He had never done that with any lover before because it implied a level of trust he had rarely let a partner have with him. "I know this may sound trite, but your Sean Renard is a very lucky man to have you," he said, "I don't know if I could have lived through changes like that for so long as well as you seemed to have done."