Betrayed Hearts and Second Chances
Not because tradition said I shouldn't, but because I wanted to, entirely, without qualification.
"Tomorrow," I said, "I'm not marrying the man who built marble floors."
"No," he agreed, his voice rough. "You're marrying whoever's left after everything else burned down."
"That's the one I want," I said. "That's the only one I ever actually wanted."
He kissed my forehead, softly, and for a long moment we just stood together in the quiet kitchen, two people who had broken each other and rebuilt something entirely different from the wreckage, something neither marble nor perfect, something real.
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