Aubrey had to go back to school though. She had to face the town, and she would have to face it without me, the only person she thought was helping her stand. I knew I had to jump off the pedestal for both of us. I also knew the jump would shatter the whole damn house and our relationship with it. So, when she’d uttered that question, standing barefoot in the lake that I deemed ours, I wasn’t about to resist her. I needed one last time with her in that glass house, just us.
