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He has many fears. Too many to count. But right now—right in this moment—the biggest one is saying goodbye to her.
“I worry that I’m not enough on my own,”
For Alfie, the word is friend, which is somehow bigger than any of the others that might fit too: brother, sibling, family. Isla is comfort, and George is steadiness, the twin guardians of their little pack. For Poppy, who is always the brightest, it’s laughter. And Oscar would hate having a word. He’d much prefer some line of code that nobody else can understand.
“Because I was just thinking,” he says, “that if the coin had landed the other way, we never would’ve met.”
His heart aches, not because he loves her—he hasn’t for a long time now—but because he loved her once, and that’s something that never completely leaves you.
some things are worth fighting for—and
