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“I will. I just need to figure out what to say.”
“How about I love you, and I’m carrying your child. That about says it all.”
I laughed. “Yeah, but I don’t know if he’s going to want to hear that. Not with how I broke it off with him before he left.”
“I think after all that he just went through, you should go to him. I have no doubt he is going to understand why you did what you did.”
“But will he forgive me?”
“You will never know unless you talk to him.”
“I know.”
We hung up the phone a few minutes later, and I decided to catch up on some work. Now that I knew Alex was alright, and home, my mind seemed to immediately untwist itself, and I was able to focus a bit better.
Well, it did for a little while, but then I ended up falling asleep. I woke a few hours later to a knock on the door, and my heart stuttered in my chest as I jumped to my feet and then put my hands out to steady myself. “Whoa.”
The apartment was dark, and I turned on a couple lights as I headed toward the door. When I got there, I peered out the peephole but didn’t see anyone. I slowly unlocked the door and pulled it open, noticing a small box on the ground.
I glanced down the hall, but it was empty. Slowly, I bent down to retrieve the package and then closed the door, taking the box to the sofa.
I unwrapped the red package with shaky hands. This had to be from Alex, but what was it going to be? I pulled the flaps back and found a velvet pouch, a note, and a passport. I frowned at the passport as I opened it and saw it was his.
Why was he giving me his passport? I set it to the side and opened the pouch, tipping it and watching the necklace fall out into my palm. Tears prickled my eyes as I stared at the charm. He was giving me back his heart. I turned to look at the passport. His heart and his passport—was he serious?
I lifted the note and began to read it.
Dearest Lexi, I know that you didn’t want to take my heart, and I’m glad that I had it with me while I was gone. That little heart and what it represented to me is what helped me get through all those nights without you. Even as I realized how right you were to call things off, I held on to the hope that one day, you just might get to hold my heart again.
As for my passport. I am giving that to you to hold also. Never again will I leave you without your blessing. If I learned nothing else while I was gone, I learned that I love you, and I will do anything for you—for us—for a future together.
I love you—Alex
I blinked as the tears dripped off my chin, and I read the note three more times. Was he really saying what I think he was saying? I put the necklace back in the pouch and tucked it and the passport into the back pocket of my jeans. I hit the bathroom and stared in the mirror for a long minute. If he was saying what I think he was saying, then this was good.
I pulled out another one of the tests that Clare had bought me and used it, then slipped it into the box that he’d given me after washing my hands. I took a few steady breaths before I let myself out of my apartment and then slowly took the stairs. My heart was thudding against my chest bone as I stood in front of his door and knocked.
A moment later, the door opened, and I wanted to jump into his arms, but I held myself back.
“Lexi,” he said huskily, his gaze going to the box, and he winced. Did he think I was going to give it back to him?
“Do you mean it?” I asked.
“Yes.”
“You aren’t going to travel overseas anymore?”
He shook his head. “No, I already told Jake that he can fire me if he wants, but I refuse to go overseas anymore. All I want is here. All I need is here.”
I handed him the box, and he frowned. “I didn’t expect you to give this back to me, Lexi.”
“I’m not, but there is something in there for you.”
He looked even more confused. “Do you want to come in?”
I nodded slowly, and he stepped back to let me pass. I walked into his living room area, wiping my sweaty palms on my pants as I turned to watch him enter behind me.
He pulled open the box and stared down into it. “What’s this?”
