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The Redefinition of Everything
The office at Westbrook felt smaller every time I walked through it now.
Six months married. Six months of waking up to Eli in my bed, his hand reaching for me in sleep, his voice the first thing I heard in the morning. Six months of redefining what surrender actually meant—not weakness, but strategy. The choice to trust someone else's instincts as much as my own.
Six months of realizing the cage I'd built was finally open, and I'd chosen to stay—not because I had to, but because I wanted to.