"That woman you love." Arthur met my eyes. "Alice. Kate. Bex. Whatever name she goes by. Go after her. Don't wait. Don't let anyone, including me, tell you to weigh anything else." He paused. "You only get one life, Damian. Don't spend yours the way I spent mine and look back at the end thinking you were a fool."
The breath I'd been holding for what felt like years finally let go.
"She hasn't come home. We have too many things between us still unsaid."
"I know." His hand brushed my shoulder as he passed. "You're young. There's still time. Bring her back. Then talk to her."
I walked out of the dining hall feeling, for the first time in a long while, like a man whose pieces sat in the right places.
I made it four seconds into the hallway before I felt Damon at my back.
"What."
"Nothin
