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Maybe it wouldn't be too bad.
Maybe she'd just forgotten all the good things, maybe she'd focused too much on the bad things.
Maybe it would be okay.
For a while, she'd been scared. All the bad things Hiram did had teamed up to haunt her, scaring her and making her doubt everything. But with him right there beside her, full of the same confidence he always carried, back with his old schemes and constant plotting, she couldn't help but remember all the good things too.
How it felt, to have power. To be someone, to have everything. And if she'd missed anything those last few months, it had been that feeling. And with Hiram, she never had to feel like that again.