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“I like that word, coming from you.”
“That one goes without saying, but no: home.” It was exactly what Alex’s presence in her life had given her. A breath of life to something less than lived.
“Sometimes I think you forget you’re Alex Grey. Or you just don’t realize how good she is. One of the two.
The only thing she felt was relief. A freedom she hadn’t known. She hadn’t even realized how much extra baggage she’d been carrying around. The weight of deception. Of willing everyone to believe you were someone you weren’t. For the first time in her life, she could just be herself. Whoever that turned out to be.
“I’ve missed you, Alex.” Her fingers closed lightly around her arm. “I would have chosen you over everything.” “I didn’t want you to have to make that choice.” “But it is my choice—my right to decide.”
À vaillant coeur rien d’impossible.” For a brave heart, nothing is impossible. “Thank you, Nat. For seeing me.”
“I guess it’s just difficult to comprehend how one small thing can set so many others in motion.”
She wasn’t the person she was two years ago. The girl who’d lived her life according to the rules of everyone else. Never stepping outside the lines established. Never reaching. Never daring. Content in her stagnant career, living her life ninety miles away from the town where she grew up. She hadn’t known who she was or what she wanted. Always waiting for someone to tell her what to do, how to act, who she should be.
Her glass house had inadvertently forced her to leave nothing to hide. To run from.
But of one thing I am positive—I love you. And I’m in love with you. Madly. Impossibly. Entirely. Whether it’s right or wrong.”
But what you don’t know is I wasn’t able to let you go for a single second. I couldn’t move forward at all.”
Because the weight of leaving it unsaid is more than I want to carry around any longer.”
Catharine wasn’t fast to reply. Her mind was revolving, swimming, filtering through all she had said. No one had ever directly told her they loved her. Not like this.
“So let me love you through it, Catharine.”
Let the world see. There was nothing left to hide.
