Chapter Fifty-Two
“You know that saying, Richard, how you can’t go home again?” Maggie rested her head on Richard’s bare chest. He soothed her, tracing tiny circles up and down her arm.
“I know you, Maggie, sometimes better than you know yourself. Memories are too much sometimes, but this is our home, and you want to leave.”
She propped her chin on her hands where they were touching him. He was so hard sometimes. This time, he didn’t shut down. “Not you, I love you. I mean us. Just leave, start over somewhere else. Let’s just walk away from everything.”
He smoothed back her hair and gently tucked it behind her ears. “No, we aren’t going to run away. This is our home. You and I are going to get up in the morning, and we’re going to keep going. We’ll get through this.”
She brushed her t
