Not happy? Of all the things he chose to focus on, the one thing that could be considered doubt. Daff didn't have any doubts; she and Elias had been through enough for her to know without a shadow of any doubt that they were going to be fine, happy. Happier than she'd ever been.

Things that did not come easy were not to be taken for granted and she was not about to lose her second chance at happy ever after.

"That's the thing, I am happy, incandescently so." She'd almost ruined it... Twice, but that didn't need mentioning now. Things had settled into a nice routine, and besides the times she has messed up, falling in love with Elias had been so very easy, startlingly natural. The effort was there, on both sides and it took work, but she didn't mind.

"It's real and it's worth it, just like you." Noble had been worth it too, but she hadn't been able to make him see that.