Chapter 45: The Guilty Conscience
Sedona's POV
"And I said to him that I felt the same way, that he wasn't the only one drowning in this kind of feelings" Rachel said softly.
"I'd been waiting for permission, I think. Waiting for some sign that it was okay to move forward, to let myself be happy even though you were gone. The memorial, as awful as it was, gave me that permission. It helped me accept that you might never come back, and that I was allowed to build a life anyway."
"We were very careful about it at first," Enzo added. "We didn't want anyone to think we'd been having an affair during your engagement, or that we were being disrespectful to your memory. We waited three months before we told anyone we were seeing each other, as in more than just friends, to see what their re
