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“Loving people . . . can hurt,” he says slowly.
“Why do it, then?” she asks. “Why do something that’s probably going to hurt?” “Oh, doll,” he says, sounding for the first time like the much older—and perhaps wiser?—soul he actually is. “Because it hurts so much more not to.”
“Bad memories are still memories, I guess. And it gets harder and harder to let go of any of them.”
“I will always need you, Acorn. And not for what you can do, but for who you are to me.”
“Oh, I do love a happily ever after.” Everett sighs contentedly. “I suppose you could say that without me, you two never would have wound up together at all. Hmm, it’s almost as if I did you a favor by lying . . . Almost like I left you off better than I found you . . . Something out of your own playbook, really. Which means you can’t be too mad at me, Gretch, right? Right?”
Love, she’s found, is a lot like the gotcha euphoria she used to experience, but steadier. Reliable. Something she can hold on to for longer than one rapturous moment.
