The next time Nora saw Ethan, he was still outside her apartment. She opened the door to leave for work and found him leaning against the wall, half asleep.
He had spent the night there.
When he saw her, he stood and pressed both pendants into her hands.
"I know some things can't be fixed once they're broken, but please give me one more chance. Mia is married now. She will never be part of our lives again. Let me spend the rest of my life making up for what I did."
A humorless laugh escaped Nora.
Ethan mistook her laugh for a sign that she was softening.
"When Mia's prank put me in the hospital, were you worried about me, or were you already figuring out how to make me forgive her?"
He froze.
He remembered that day. His first thought had been whether she was safe. His second had be
