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“Oh, and by the way,” I pause. “Summer-Raine suits you just fine. Prettiest name I’ve ever heard for the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen.”
We’re a study in paradoxes, Summer-Raine and I. We’re strangers and soulmates and ghosts from our pasts. I’ve moved on from her, yet I’ve loved her every single day since she left.
“You’ve got it all wrong.” I shake my head. “I didn’t leave you, Auden. I set you free.” He freezes. “Say that again.” “I didn’t leave you,” I whisper. “I set you free.”
“It doesn’t matter how much time passes between us, if you need me, I will always come for you.”
Because even though I know it’s time to let her go, I’ll always love her. That will never change. I’ll carry Summer-Raine and the memories of her in my heart for all of time.
“Pretty girl, listen to me. There is no one else in this world for me but you. It has always been you. And I will wait as long as you need me to until you show up on my doorstep and tell me its time. I’ll wait forever, baby. Forever.”
“Loving you was never the hard part, Summer-Raine. That’s always been as easy to me as breathing. It was never a choice or a decision I made. I fell in love with you because my heart didn’t know how to do anything else. Loving you was the only thing that ever made any sense to me. Please don’t think you were hard to love, baby, because that couldn’t be further from the truth.”
“I can’t watch from the side lines as another woman lives the life I want with the man who was supposed to be mine. It would destroy me more than you already have. And I’ve made too much progress to put myself through that.”
“I love you so much, Summer-Raine. I always will.” He sniffs, his hands fisted at his sides as if holding himself back from reaching for me. “I’ll see you everywhere. In the bleeding skies and the sunlight as golden as your hair. I’ll hear your laugh in poetry, I’ll see your smile in the daffodils that grow outside my building. I’ll taste your lips in every peach and smell you in every ocean breeze. The beach is ruined for me now, as is every balcony, every wildflower, every splash of summer rain. And just know, my pretty girl, that whenever you think of me, I’ll be thinking of you too.”
