"Forget everything unpleasant that happened. We can still be Regina and Chase."I lowered my eyes to her, then looked at the priceless ring and the old desk where I had once sat, still pushed tightly against Regina's.On the desktop, I could faintly make out the letters we had carved into it with a compass all those years ago—'RL & CF.'Regina Lockwood and Chase Foster.The engraving had not changed. But Regina still did not seem to understand.In her memories, 18-year-old Chase sat at this very desk, watching her pretend to sleep, always waiting for her. To her, those days had been beautiful and pure, a sanctuary she could return to after adulthood had made life complicated. But for me, they were only the beginning of exhaustion.Once we walked out of this place, there had been years of a secret relationship, the despair of being disowned by our parents, countless days and nights spent working just to get by, the agony of a perforated stomach ulcer, and the terror of nearly dyin
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