Yvonne has spent years treating Alexander, the autistic bodyguard her family took in, with patience and money for doctors. She believes he is broken and gentle, and that his silence means he cannot help what he is.
When their boat capsizes, he moves faster than any disabled man could, ripping her only life jacket away and giving it to her sister Jade. Drowning, Yvonne understands the autism was an act and the devotion was never hers. Then she wakes on the morning the bodyguards were chosen, and this time she says no to all of it.
