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“I didn’t need him, but I missed him so desperately it felt like I did.”

“Well,” Kai said, his posh British accent sounding a tad too dignified for the situation. “This is awkward.”

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“But I broke her heart once, and I’d let her break my heart a thousand times in return if it meant that one day, she found her way back to me.”

“There are probably hundreds of men who’d line up for the chance to be with you. I only ask that you let me be one of them.”

“You broke my heart, and you weren’t even there to witness it.”

“Actions spoke louder than words, and in that moment, I didn’t care about the things he’d done or hadn’t done during our marriage. I simply leaned into him, breathed in the comfort of his familiar scent, and let him hold me together.”

“Some kisses were a product of passion. Others were an outpouring of emotion. But this one? This one was a fucking revelation. Because when Alessandra angled her chin up and kissed me back, I finally understood, if only for a moment in time, what true contentment felt like. No yearning, no chasing, no worries. Just her and us. It was all I needed.”

“She was the only person who’d ever truly mattered. Even if she didn’t love me anymore, even if all my efforts to win her back failed, she would always be the sun anchoring my universe.”

“You matter,” I said. “Always.”

“That was the irony of life. People always reminisced about the good old days, but we never appreciated living in those days until they were gone.”