told myself if I ever saw you again, that I would show you everything. I would face my fears, my father, the family that dragged me down. And that if you would step foot in this home again, that I would never let you go.” He smoothed his thumb over their ring, their promise, one more time. “In the long years since seeing you, in losing them all, I thought I had forgotten what it felt like to be happy. Now, I catch myself smiling and I realize it’s because I’m thinking of you again. I cannot deny you anymore, Thea, not when you are so entangled in what I believe is happiness.”
