Seeing him reach for her like that made Martha smile through her tears and she knew what the effort of doing that was. It was odd how it was the little things that showed his redemption rather than the large ones.

Shifting a bit so Martha could look at him, she whispered back. "No, he's going to know that I got sentimental and cried at a movie," Martha countered his statement with a quick smile, but swabbed at the moisture on her cheeks with an impatient hand.

"But it's going to be okay." She was trying very hard to believe that--it actually sounded like she did.