What He Never Let Go Of
"I don't think I can promise you it goes away entirely. I can promise you it gets easier to carry, the same way the grief has, a little at a time. And I can promise you that from here forward, nothing about your life gets handled, documented, or shared without you knowing first.
That's not a fix for what already happened. It's just the only real thing I have to offer going forward."
"That's enough," Elena said, and found, somewhat to her own surprise, that she meant it completely.
The Ferretti decision came through two weeks later — Elena's team selected over two competing internal pitches, the board's approval unanimous and, for the first time in months, entirely uncomplicated by any whispe