Diana had left Jed alone for a week to think. She knew that what she’d asked of him was exactly what he was doing, searching his soul, all the while switching the roles and imagining it was she who was sick and she who had arbitrarily decided on no surgery. There was one thing she knew in the very center of her being about her husband: His level of commitment went above and beyond what she’d ever seen, and he lived and died by his word.
She knew she was taking a risk. When she told Jed’s family that he needed time to think, they’d respected her wishes… but Brad said that though they would give him time to think, it couldn’t take forever. They’d step in and sit down and have another heart to heart. Brad couldn’t stay any longer, and the next morning, after speaking with Emily, his wife, he
