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BLAIRE
“It’s only going to be a week or two,” I told Honey for what felt like the fiftieth time.
I really didn’t have the energy for this conversation. Honey was the best assistant I’d had. Her independent and headstrong energy were what had endeared her to me. I did not have the time or mental capacity for her to be clingy.
“I know. I know.”
“You have nothing to worry about. It’s going to be great.”
I was too drained from that interaction with my mother for it to be anything else. And then I’d actually said that word…that word out loud to Campbell. We’d hedged around it this last month. It had happened. It was our past. His huge error. The thing I’d sworn I’d never forgive him for. And now, here we were.
There was nothing else to discuss really. It was not going to be the same a
