Raylan stared at her a long moment, expression softening around the edges back to a calmer one.

"I can't imagine what it was like having to raise two kids by yourself," he started, voice equally soft. "And you got them to adulthood the best way you knew how. I'm the last to judge here, mine's not even talkin'. Alls I'm tryin' to do is help him."

It wasn't a competition. He didn't want it to be turned into that somehow. And after all the
therapists and pills, if a little human connection helped, if doing something different got a better result then it was a good thing, not a victory to be lorded over anyone.