Graduating From This Relationship
After a long while, he finally said quietly, "But you left. When I returned to that apartment, there was nothing inside. As I stood in the living room looking at your favorite floor-to-ceiling windows, I abruptly realized that without you, it wasn't a home at all. It was just an empty apartment."
My fingers tightened gently around the umbrella handle.
I wasn't moved. It was just that I'd once waited a long time to hear those words.
I'd waited for Philip to offer me an explanation, to firmly declare that I was his chosen person, and to clarify that I was more important to him than anyone else.
Perhaps the greatest tragedy in life was to hear the right words at the wrong time, when they no lon