PurpleHearts kept apologizing for letting my grandfather slip out of their care, but the deed had already been done. He had already succeeded in making me see what I was trying to be blind to since. Ryan wasn’t for me, no matter how much I thought time could help us, it was impossible, and he had made it very clear, so now, here I was, all buried in work. I would be closing soon, which meant going home to face him. I was surprised he wasn’t avoiding me or trying to, and I was most of the time too tired from work to try myself so we had just been tolerating one another. “Snap out of it, Jules. The designs are great, so let’s go ahead with them.” Judith said and I almost rolled my eyes, almost. She was becoming more and more unbearable, but I just kept tolerating her as well. “Okay t

