“I’ll always love you. But it can’t be me. I know it now more than ever.” He caught a tear as it slipped from my eye. “I told you I would always come back, and I will keep that promise until the day I die, but what you need is someone who can be here for you. Someone who can stay. I can’t be the only one who knows about this, babe. These secrets are eating you away from the inside out. You gotta let it out. You gotta tell Joe the truth.”
