Chapter 8 - Claire Discovered Dominic Had Been Protecting Her for Years—Even When She Believed He Didn't CareClaire found the letters by accident.
They were in a locked drawer.
Every month.
For three years.
Dominic had written them.
He had never sent them.
The first said:
I don't know how to tell you that you're becoming the most important person in my life.
The second:
You deserve someone who knows how to say what he feels. I am trying to become that man.
The last was dated the night she left.
I said life would go on because I was afraid the men around me would see how badly I needed you. I was wrong. Life did not go on. It stopped.
Claire cried for an hour.
When Dominic came home, she confronted him.
“Why didn't you send these?”
“I was a coward.”
She smiled through tears.
“Yes.”
He walked closer.
“I love you.”
She stared.
“Say it again.”
“I love you.”
She kissed him.
Years of distance collapsed.
They reconciled.
May you like
Not as the same people.
As better ones.
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