The Room They Had Kept Locked for Ten Years

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Chapter 26

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I looked toward the pale horizon.

“I loved you too.”

“I thought losing you was the price of protecting everyone else.”

“You didn’t lose me because you protected them. You lost me because you never gave me the chance to stand beside you.”

“I know.”

“And if we are ever going to have any kind of relationship again, you cannot ask me to become the woman I was before.”

“I won’t.”

“Good.”

He nodded.

“I’ll meet the woman you are now.”

The words moved through me more gently than I expected.

Behind us, Ethan called from the doorway.

“Mom! Dad! Breakfast!”

Alexander looked at me.

I held out my hand—not for him to lead me, not for

 

 

 

 

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