She didn’t answer in words. She flung herself at me making the swing chair rock alarmingly, nearly spilling us out onto the floor as she hugged me so tightly I was fighting for air. Her face was buried into my neck and I could feel her tears on my skin, so I pulled away and looked her in the eye.
‘Are you ok Baby?’
‘I walked out and left you in the lurch and even when I knew it was a mistake I was too cowardly to come back. I broke your heart and you’re still prepared to do this for me, for us?’
Jo had ended up laying half across my lap looking up at me with something close to incredulity on her face. I took her face in my hands and dried her tears with my thumbs, smiling down into her wonderful eyes.
‘Yes I am. I Love you Jo and it’s not often in life we get second chances and it feel
