It was the first time since the night he proposed that Julian had offered no excuses.He blamed neither Celeste nor the fifty million dollars.I took the statement from him.“I accept your apology.”A faint light returned to Julian’s eyes.But I continued.“Accepting your apology does not mean I forgive you. And it does not mean we can ever return to what we were.”The light in his eyes slowly faded.“I know.”“I only wanted to tell you before you left that you were never the one who failed us.”“I was the one who lost you.”Rain ran down the side of his face.I looked at those familiar features and still remembered all the ways he had once been good to me.But a relationship was rarely destroyed by a single argument.Ours had died every time Julian chose not to believe me—and every time he used my dignity as leverage to force me into submission.I took the old photograph from the cardboard box and handed it back to him.“You should keep the past.”“I’m going to live a new life.”Julia
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