Lara-Jean POV
"You should meet him."
Peter's suggestion surprised me. We were having breakfast, the morning sun warm through the windows, when he said it.
"Meet Mark? Why would I do that?"
"Because closure isn't for him. It's for you. You need to see him—really see him—to understand that he doesn't have power over you anymore."
I stared at him. "You'd be okay with that?"
"I'd be okay with anything that helps you heal." He reached across the table, took my hand. "I'll be outside. Close enough to intervene if needed. Far enough to give you space."
Now I'm sitting on a park bench, waiting for the ghost of my past.
And I'm not afraid.
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Mark approaches like a man already defeated. His suit is rumpled, his hair unkempt, his eyes hollow. He looks nothing like the confident fiancé wh
