“After everything that happened, I needed that. I needed to believe that I could pull through. And that…” “What?” she prompts between my hesitant taps against the tabletop. “That…Jesse would too.” She takes a long sip of her wine. “So I take it you’re a fan of happily ever afters.” I smirk. “Who wouldn’t be?” “Hmm. Maybe a few very serious academic types.” “I take the texts seriously. I’ve never been much of a literary snob, though.” “Those blazers you wear with the elbow patches suggest otherwise.”
