How It Unfolds (The Far Reaches, #1)

by James S.A. Corey

She shook her head. “That doesn’t quite work. You could have kept it in your locker for that. You brought it to the scan.” “I wasn’t sure it’d play out. I figured if you shot me down there, this way there’d be other chances. A thousand new worlds, and each one the chance to maybe get it right between us.” “Ouch.” “Yeah.”

“And when we weren’t anymore, we stopped. That’s worth more than you give it credit for. It’s possible to be faithful to something that’s in the past. It’s not a betrayal to build something new when something old is finished.”