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“I love you. I love you so much, and I have for as long as I can remember.” Before she could say anything, he kissed her again. “I hated watching you care for a guy who didn’t deserve you. I hated how he went weeks and sometimes months without visiting you. I hated watching you waste your time with him, knowing he would never love you like I do.”
“How’d I do?” “Better than I would have. You held yourself together and got through it with your dignity intact.” That might be true, Janey thought, but hearing him casually confess to being unfaithful had broken what was left of her heart.
“I’m still trying to figure out how everything changed between us so quickly. I look at you and I see Joe, my friend forever.” He swallowed hard. “Is that all you see?” His heart pounded as he awaited her reply. “No,” she said softly, “and that’s the part I’m trying to understand. I see all this other stuff now.” Joe wanted to weep with gratitude and relief and amazement. Finally. Finally. Finally. “You’re seeing all the stuff I’ve always seen when I look at you.” “I feel like I’ve just met you for the very first time and anything is possible.”
was something about knowing he’d loved her from afar for so long that had Janey also shedding inhibitions that had plagued her relationship with David.
And she would remember the moment, the exact moment when she realized he was holding her the way a man holds the woman he loves. Right then she knew somehow, some way, this was going to be okay. They were going to be okay.
