Hold me... hold me tight and don't let go."

Arya couldn't believe what she was hearing from Ayden's lips. His stepmother had abused him for a long time without his father even realizing what was going on under his nose. She feels helpless for him. It hurts her that a child had to go through that.

However, questions cross her mind... How did she manage to subdue him as a teenager, would her stepmother have done the same to Mark?

Her heart goes out to both of them.

Ayden tells him how things started. Mental note, she now feels wary of leaving her son with anyone.

"Did you try telling your father?" she asks as she takes him by the hands.

They both lie sitting on the bed. Libido has gone out the window and now only confessions remain.

"Yes, when it first started... I wanted to tell him that she touched me and I didn't like it" he makes a disgusted face and Arya realizes how hard it is for him to relate that. "She used to bathe us together, me and Mark, or so it was in the beginning. Then, as we grew apart. I didn't want her to show