Before her sentencing, Tessa had someone deliver a letter to me.
She claimed that she had lost only because of the family she was born into. She also insisted that if she had met Ethan before I did, the ending would have been different.
After reading it, I gave the letter to my attorney for the case file. I did not reply.
She still treated life as a contest. She believed that taking someone else's man would give her that woman's entire place in the world.
Ethan moved into a cramped rental apartment. Occasionally, someone recognized him and asked how he could have hurt the woman who had stayed beside him through his lowest years.
He no longer tried to explain. He also stopped harassing me.
My body never returned to what it had been before the crash. My legs still ached when the weathe
