An inexplicable weight lifted from Tucker's chest.
'Thank God. It wasn't Hadley.'
He had left all his old wills in his mother's care, with explicit instructions that Hadley was never allowed to see them.
Every single one contained plans for Hadley and Caroline, detailing how his survivor's benefits should be distributed and how their future should be secured.
Every word was steeped in the devotion of a man who truly believed he was marching toward death, each line a final arrangement for the people he loved most.
He couldn't let her think he was still the same man he'd been back then… The man who couldn't live without her.
He wasn't that young doctor anymore, the one who had to leave everything behind in a written letter just in case he never returned home.
"Dr. C
