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ELENAThe first thing I felt was cold.Not the kind of cold that settled into your bones. Not the chill of snow or wind. It was sterile, dry, antiseptic. The kind of cold that came from machines humming, filtered air, fluorescent lights. A hospital.I blinked slowly, and the world came into focus in

DEREKI was more nervous than I had ever been in my entire life.And that included some truly horrible moments. Moments when life and death had been in the balance.Worse than when Aiden had been in the hospital, his little body limp and pale against white sheets, machines screaming at me that I mig

His voice was soft when he asked, “Are you mad at Daddy?”My breath caught.I didn’t answer right away. I just held him tighter, brushing my lips against the top of his head, breathing in the familiar scent of shampoo and dreams.“No, baby,” I said finally, my voice barely above a whisper. “Just sad

"Mason made me wait two years," she interrupted, a faint smile crossing her lips. "Two years of him being stubborn and proud and terrified that loving me meant losing himself. And I almost left—I came so close that I'd packed a bag and left it by the front door for a week, just to remind myself that I could." She paused, her fingers curling around her own mug. "But then I realized something. Some men have to break themselves completely before they learn how to stand back up. The question isn't whether they fell. It's whether they got up different."I stared at the steam curling from my mug, watching it twist and dissipate."Did he?" I whispered. "Get up different?"Erin didn't answer. She didn't need to. We both already knew.Later that night, after the house had gone quiet and Aiden was asleep down the hall with his stuffed wolf tucked under his chin, I walked to the window and stood there for a long time with one hand resting on the cold glass.I thought about the letter again. I'd

The words landed like a stone in still water, sending ripples outward into the silence between us."Yes," I said. "You did."No anger in it. Not anymore. Just the truth, stated plainly, given its proper weight.He didn't try to argue or deflect. He just stood there, carrying it, and something about