o: After t

n hadn'

e she hadn't touched in years. Her coat was soaked, her heels ruined, and the ad

door creak o

ink you'd re

dn't think you'd reall

looked good-too good. Black tux, tie undone, like he'd just walked of

liated me

augh. "You abandoned m

ou didn't have to

urned to him then, her eyes sharp with fury. "You don't get to be mad. I raised our

d quickly. "About the b

e there, promising me forever. The next day, gone. New number. New job. New

what he'd done, or hadn't done, hu

name?" he

art tw

ispered. "His

it-the guilt. The man he used to be, burie

to mee

don't get to want any

his f

hollow. "You're a stranger

her arm, but

pped. "You don't get to fix this wit

pleaded. "I can't undo the pas

d them back. "You think you deserve rede

earn

can

ed. The wind picked

d quietly. "Even if it ta

the man who once held her heart, now sta

" she said, voice shaking. "I c

away, the rain swallowing h

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ther wa