His arms come around me.
“And for loving me like you do.” The words are torn from me, and I realize that I mean them. Despite everything—my own anger, my lashing out at him—Cedric has stood firm. He could have walked away. He could have done a lot of things, but he stayed. If this had only been about Finn, he could’ve taken our son and left. There was nothing I would have been able to do about it. But he didn’t.
I know how to love now, but Cedric is the only person who has ever shown me what it is like to be loved like this.
I feel his lips press on top of my head. “You’ve forgiven me?”
“There was nothing to forgive, Cedric.” Pulling away from him, I give him a shaky smile. “I’m a different person now, though, and I don’t know if you will like the new Leanna.”
“I like her well enough.
