Happily Ever After… With Another
The dishes were beautiful, but I had no appetite to pick up my fork.
I knew Caleb couldn't possibly be in danger, yet I couldn't stop worrying about him.
Before long, the man came again. He pulled me outside to look at the vast field of roses.
"Look," he said, "every rose bush here was planted by my own hands, exactly the same as before. Natalie, from now on, every year on your birthday and every holiday, I'll plant another rose bush for you, all right?"
He smiled, his eyes brimming with affection, as if yesterday's confrontation had never happened—as if I were still his wife.