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“Do you believe that?” she asks me, jotting something down on her notepad.
I look out her window at the Seattle skyline. “I don’t know what to believe anymore, Dr. Brinkman. But what I do know is this last year without Ben has been the hardest time in my life, then all of sudden, I meet this guy, and everything now feels different.”
“Why do you think that is?”
“Thane is not like other men. He’s caring and very respectful. He has a son too, the same age as Braxley. They’re actually in the same class. And Thane’s been through his fair share of crap too. He’s going through a divorce now, but no matter what, he still puts his son first.”
“Have you two been intimate?”
“No, God, no. We can’t even kiss.”
“What if you did? How would that make you feel?”
“We’ve tried, and it hasn’t gone well. It’s something that’s very hard for me.”
“Wow, Faye, I’m…I’m really proud of you.”
“You are?”
“Yes, you’ve made it through a horrific time, and I have a feeling you are at the end of the pain and about to open yourself up to something really good. I want you to remember what Ben told you. He wants you to move on and be happy. That could be why you’re feeling him when Thane’s around—he’s approving.”
Her words take me back to the day when Ben was on his deathbed, and he made me promise to not wear my ring after he was gone and to not wallow in the pain of him dying. He wanted me to move on, to celebrate waking up each day healthy, and to find someone else for me and for Braxley.
Envisioning his strength as he told me those words makes me wonder, did he send Thane…?
