“Do you love me?” I asked.
“Yes, God, yes.”
I moved closer to him, took his face in my hands, and made him look at me.
“Peter didn’t plan to die,” I said softly. “He didn’t know what would happen. And if he could see us right now, I think he’d be relieved. Of all the men in the world, I ended up with someone good. Someone who never pushed me. Someone who never used my pain against me. Someone who’s torturing himself over a text message from seven years ago.”
Dan’s eyes filled with tears.
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“You didn’t break a promise,” I continued. “Life happened. We both survived something horrible, and we found each other on the other side. That’s not a betrayal. That’s just being human.”
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