"I won't tell him. Won't tell anyone. I promise." In this, she's dead serious. Laura is the first person she's ever told about Devigny, about what he did to her and what happened after. She'll guard Laura's past the same way.

Still, it's...freeing, in a way, for one other person to know. Carrying such a burden alone all these years takes its toll. She smiles with her next exhalation of smoke.

"He really likes you, ya know."