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Chapter 51
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Evelyn's POVFor a few seconds I couldn't think of anything to say.Because for years I'd carried around the quiet assumption that the story was simple—that I had somehow failed, that I hadn't been enough, that if I had been prettier, more interesting, more successful, more understanding, or simply more worthy, then maybe things would've ended differently.And yet standing there in the darkness, listening to him speak, I realized that nobody had ever said this to me before.Nobody had ever separated Sebastian's choices from my value.Nobody had ever looked me in the eye and suggested that the problem might never have been me at all.The wind moved softly through the trees.And for a moment neither of us spoke.Then Julian's expression shifted unexpectedly.The seriousness faded.A small smile appeared.“There is one more thing.”I narrowed my eyes immediately.“Should I be worried?”“Probably.”That answer alone made me suspicious.“What is it?”He looked at me.“From now on, I'm not
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Evelyn's POVI stopped for a moment, genuinely caught off guard by his response, because if I was being honest, I'd fully expected him to agree with me, to take the opportunity to criticize Sebastian, or at the very least to confirm every frustration and resentment I'd been carrying around for months.Instead, he did none of those things.“I know this probably sounds strange coming from me,” Julian said after a moment, his voice calm and measured as we stood beneath the trees, “but I don't actually believe Sebastian never loved you.”The answer surprised me enough that I forgot what I was about to say.Julian continued before I could interrupt.“The reason I say that isn't because I'm trying to defend him, and it certainly isn't because I think what he did was acceptable. It's because I've known him longer than you have, and I remember exactly what he was like before you came into his life.”The wind shifted softly through the pines.“When we were younger, Sebastian was the definition
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Evelyn's POV“The truth is that I was already waiting for something to break. I was waiting for some moment that would force me to stop making excuses and finally see things clearly, because deep down I think I already knew the marriage wasn't working, but knowing something and acting on it are two very different things.”I glanced at him briefly.“You didn't create that process.”The wind stirred through the trees.“You just accelerated it.”Julian turned toward me.The expression on his face softened slightly.“So does that mean you've forgiven me?”I laughed quietly.The sound disappeared into the darkness almost immediately.“I think so.”His eyebrows lifted.“Just like that?”“Not exactly.”I looked down at the gravel path beneath our feet.“It's more that the older I get, the harder it becomes to place all the responsibility on you, because when I strip everything else away and look at what actually happened, I don't think I have as much right to blame you as I once thought.”I
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Evelyn's POV“There’s something I've wanted to apologize for properly for a long time,” he said quietly, keeping his eyes on the path ahead rather than looking at me, though the seriousness in his voice carried more weight than any direct eye contact could have. “Not over the phone, not in the middle of an argument, and not in one of those conversations where both people are already angry before they start talking, but like this—face to face, with no distractions and no excuses.”The wind stirred the branches overhead.He let out a slow breath.“Seattle was my fault.”There was no hesitation this time.No attempt to soften it.No attempt to justify it.“No matter how many reasons I thought I had, and no matter how jealous I was of Sebastian at the time, I had no right to make that decision for you, and I definitely had no right to push you into a situation like that simply because I believed it would eventually lead you somewhere better.”His voice remained calm, but there was somethi
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Evelyn's POV“The terrifying part isn't that Sebastian pretended to be Julian, because pretending would have required an actual lie, and unless I'm missing something, he never technically lied about anything.”The fire crackled softly.“He asked whether she'd helped someone injured at the equestrian club, watched her assume that someone was him, and then simply stood there while she connected all the wrong dots herself.”The words hung in the night air.“He didn't correct the misunderstanding. He didn't deny the misunderstanding. He didn't clarify anything. Instead, he allowed the misunderstanding to exist, accepted all the advantages that misunderstanding created, used it as an opening to get to know her, used it to build trust, used it to pursue her, and eventually used it to build an entire relationship.”The campsite had become completely silent now except for the occasional pop from the fire.“And the truly insane part,” Frank continued, shaking his head as though he could barely
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Evelyn's POV“Anyway, that's how it happened,” I said quietly, staring into the fire for a moment because even now I wasn't entirely sure how to process what I'd just learned, and the more I replayed the story in my head, the more absurd it became, since from my perspective everything had seemed perfectly logical at the time. “After that, Sebastian started asking me to dinner, started pursuing me, and honestly my reasoning back then was embarrassingly simple, because I thought that if a man cared enough to track me down just to thank me for helping him, then he was probably a decent person, and once I got to know him he seemed charming, considerate, reliable, and genuinely interested in me, so I never once stopped to wonder whether there might be another explanation for how we'd met, because as far as I knew there wasn't one.”The fire burned softly between us while the wind moved through the trees overhead, and when I finally looked up again I found Julian still staring at me with th
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Evelyn's POVI practically fled the car after that.The second the seatbelt released, I lowered my head so quickly it probably looked suspicious and climbed out before Julian could say anything else capable of shortening my lifespan.Unfortunately, escaping the car did absolutely nothing to save me
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Evelyn's POV“I just moved in,” I said at last, finally forcing myself to speak before the silence turned unbearable, then awkwardly held the pudding out toward him a little more. “I originally made this for… the neighbor across the hall.”The sentence sounded increasingly stupid the longer it hung
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