like in this house thinking I had failed you, thinking you stopped loving me because I couldn’t stop crying.”
His face crumpled. “Olivia, I never stopped. Not for one second.”
“Then why didn’t you let me in?”
“Because you were already drowning,” he whispered. “And I thought if I reached for you, I would pull you under.”
I looked at him and asked, “Where’s the second bracelet?”
Nolan opened his briefcase, removed another velvet box, and placed it on the table.
Inside was the same bracelet.
I lifted it carefully,
