HE CHOSE HER LIES OVER ME
she said, which was the same thing she had said in the pavilion weeks ago, and which landed differently now, in the farmhouse, on the day the submission was sent, with the original dissolution document in Cole's filing system and the full picture finally assembled.
"I know," I said.
And for the first time since she had said it the first time, I believed it completely.
Ronan caught my eye from the doorway and gave the small nod that was his version of everything is as it should be, the same gesture I had seen from him since the mountain, patient and certain and entirely his own.
The territory was quiet around us.
The riders were on the road.
It was enough.