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SAVANNAH
PRESENT
The first Saturday morning in May dawned bright and beautiful. Ash was missing from bed, but that wasn’t unusual. He was a morning person. Always up with the dawn, working out in the gym he had in the basement. He lifted weights and ran a few miles before I was even out of bed most days.
But today was different.
Today was Lila’s wedding.
Nerves crept in at his absence. He wouldn’t leave me here alone and drive into Athens, right?
I felt bad, even considering it, but it was hard not to think of all the other idiotic things Ash had done in the name of love. I wanted to say that the hold she had on him had snapped in the last year. That he was finally, officially over her. As much as he claimed that he was. On the other hand … obsession was rarely logical.
“Ash?” I
