Contaminating everything
We thought came from the heart
As she continued to spill her heart to the lynx, though, his heart sank. She went on about Neron and her most recent encounter with him, and how Noah was failing. He listened intently. She was right--he had been too preoccupied with his own things and making sure that the woman stayed busy and clean that he hardly had time or made space for her to share what was going on in her head. He needed to do better.
Delphine was the first woman that Noah had a steady relationship with. He's slept with other women or kept them as friendly company. Delphine, however, was the first woman that Noah lived with, and said that they needed to try--the first woman that Noah said he could love, the first woman to say she could love him. That mattered to him, and he needed to do better for her. He needed to spend more time getting to know her and ask more questions.
Just listen to the noises