"I think so. It might've been the sickness, too." Jamie stays where he is as he talks, head resting against Cullen's shoulder. "The Duchy manipulates people... what I did was some weird combination of their propensity for stealing hearts and my own--I don't know. My own desperate desire for love."

He shrugs, embarrassed to say it. But Cullen at least deserves his honesty after what Jamie put him through.