WREN
I couldn't explain my feelings right now, only that my heart had decided to break free from whatever restraints that had been holding it back.
All these years, I had thought he hated me. I thought he had chosen to believe their lies rather than my truth simply because he wanted me out of his life for someone better, only to learn he had never believed them at all.
So I had never loved him in vain.
I wanted to believe none of this was real, that he had carefully planned this moment. But something in the way he spoke told me this was coming from a broken man who had lost the most important thing in his life and was only now realizing it, a man who had waited so long for a chance to get it back, though he wasn't sure he ever would.
Almost. I was so close to telling him the truth abo
