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𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐭

Why would he say that?

I stared at the closed door for a few seconds after Alfie walked away, still trying to understand why he had to bring that up after all these years. Husband to be? That was just a dumb promise we had made to each other when we were kids.

At that age, we had thought we knew everything about love and what the future was supposed to look like, so making promises like that had seemed normal.

We were kids.

We had no idea what life was going to throw at us.

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