where you’ve lived your life. And I treated you like you didn’t belong here.”
Linda’s eyes filled with tears.
But something was different now.
She wasn’t shrinking away.
She wasn’t apologizing.
And she wasn’t rushing to make him feel better.
She stood straight in the doorway.
“I love you, Ethan,” she said. “But what you did hurt me more than I can explain.”
He nodded.
“I know.”
“And one apology isn’t going to make everything normal again.”
“I understand.”
She opened the door a little wider.
Not completely.
Just enough
