He chuckled sadly. "I thought I’d driven him away. My first thought wasn’t of noble acts and rescue plans. I thought he was capable of giving up everything we had, everything we all had, just because I wasn’t enough to keep him with us anymore." A deep sigh fell from his lips. "There was no part of me that thought he still had good in him. Not an ounce of me thought there was any other motive than his own interests."