[Steve would've believed her love couldn't be broken, but it was a lie, so of course it could. And everything he'd done to her was hitting him then, as well as the fact that his children were dead; he supposed that was his punishment for the things he'd done to her.

Slowly he ran his fingers through her hair, the pain and sadness in her voice like a knife to the gut, real or not.] Wasn't your fault, Sharon... It wasn't--

I... [Oh, god, he could've told her the truth just then, the real truth, but he's not sure he has it in him, not yet...] I shouldn't have dragged you into this, shouldn't have fallen in love with you.