HE SAW HIS TWIN BABIES ON NEW YEAR’S EVE AND REALIZED THE WOMAN HE NEVER STOPPED LOVING HAD BEEN RAISING THEM ALONE
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Chapter 9 - On New Year’s Eve, Graham Returned to the Sidewalk Where He First Saw His Children and Finally Understood Why Elena Had RunOne year after finding them, Graham brought Elena to Manhattan.
The same storefront.
The same corner.
Different lives.
The twins were older.
Walking now.
Holding each other's hands.
Graham looked at Elena.
“You were scared.”
“Yes.”
“Of me?”
“No.”
“Then of what?”
“Of losing myself.”
He understood.
“You thought being with me meant becoming part of my world.”
“I had forgotten how to be mine.”
He nodded.
“I would never ask you to give that up again.”
She smiled.
“I know.”
Fireworks began over the river.
June laughed.
Caleb pointed.
Graham knelt.
“Happy New Year.”
The twins hugged him.
Elena smiled.
For the first time, the memory of that night no longer hurt.
It had become the beginning of something else.
Not perfect.
May you like
Not easy.
But theirs.
