Thirty-One
Bash agonized over every word of that letter.
My one and only Toni …
No, that sucked. Like some kind of crap love song, maybe because it rhymed. He didn’t want to write a song, he wanted to explain why he had to go.
I love you. You’re the only woman I could love. That will always be true.
Fact check: true. But would telling her that make it harder for her to move on?
Of course, the thought of Toni with someone else made his insides rebel and his teeth ache. But he had to accept it. Alastair Dougal would probably slide right into her life—without dragging an ugly past along with him.
He decided to keep that line. He needed her to know what she meant to him.
You deserve the best from the man you’re with. I wish I could be that. I wish I could be who you deserve. I thought
