When Ethan returned to the hospital, Mia was reaching for her phone to call him. Her face brightened when he appeared in the doorway.
"Ethan, did you come to stay with me?"
He walked straight past her and headed for the trash can.
Her smile froze as she watched him dig through it.
"Ethan, what's wrong? Why are you searching the trash?"
Relief washed over him when he saw that the trash hadn't been emptied. The damaged pouch and pendant were still inside.
If he stitched the pouch back together and had a second pendant blessed, surely Nora would forgive him.
He knew Nora inside out, or so he believed. She was softhearted and had always loved him too much to leave. She couldn't truly be gone. She was only angry.
He admitted that he had gone too far that day. Even so, he told himself th
