He never stopped believing that they would be more, that they would be everything. I want that. You deserve that, I tell myself. You could have had that, a smaller, quieter voice whispers. Could I? Could I have had that with Vic if I were open and honest from the beginning? Honest about what I wanted, or at least when that changed? If I’d been honest about ending our arrangement instead of setting him up to answer, like Cassie said?
