Sarah chuckled softly at the sharp look that he threw her, and his immediate surrender made it obvious how much keeping such an injury quiet meant to him. She wondered why he was so desperate to hide things from that man when Yuri spent so much time tending to his father. He had so many secrets yet remained doting and almost obsessive about his duties.

"I knew you would agree eventually," she murmured as she finished cleaning him up and dropping the last cloth to the dirty water. Her arm slipped around his waist to hold him as she lay her cheek against his shoulder. "Why do you hide from him so much?"