Four
“Because it would have been selfish to take you for myself when I couldn’t… When I can’t give you what you deserve.”
“You’re making no sense, William. I love you, I’ve loved you all this time. I wanted you to propose, I wanted to marry you. I was just so humiliated and when you finally asked, I said no, which was the hardest thing I’ve ever done. But then the next time you asked, I was still hurt and that no was a little easier. And so was the next one, and the next one. Before I knew it, it was just… This thing we were doing. You would ask me to marry you, I would say no.”
“Until you said yes,” William whispered.
I swallowed the lump in my throat. “I thought that was the right answer.”
“It is… But I’m not enough. That’s why… I mean, that’s why you have Watson. And Derek… It’s be
