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“Ethan very much wants this.”
“You said his celibacy saved his life! And now he’s being forced to get a wife, a-a woman, a stranger,” she realized, horrified, “to do things that nearly killed him before? Are you shitting me here?”
“Ethan has grown to realize that while he doesn’t have the power to change the past, he can use it to rewrite his future.”
Cat came to a halt at those precious words, nodding. “You’re so right.” She considered what he was probably going through. Plenty of worry and fear. “Which explains all his parameters he’s put up.”
“The parameters serve as both a guard and learning tool.”
It suddenly dawned on her. His parameters in their marriage arrangement were tactical maneuvers in the name of self-preservation. With just cause.
But then…
She turned, feeling like Big G was on her right for some reason. “He chose me because I didn’t need a man or sex. Doesn’t sound to me like he’s wanting to rewrite anything but rather pretend he’s rewriting something.”
“Perhaps, yes,” Big G said, his tone begging for interpretation.
“I heard a big unless in that one.” She was pacing again. “I bet AL is dying to talk right now and tell me all the missing pieces.”
“He is.”
Cat had to snicker at that one. “Big brother wanting to protect?”
“Little brother wanting to help his big brother find real happiness.”
Cat froze, putting her hand over the pain biting in her chest at that one. “Well…I want to help. If I knew how.”
“Just let him lead,” Big G said.
“Are you sure?” she wondered, not convinced with that. “He seems to be moving in a different direction than you think.”
“In this, the road is what will direct the destination.”
“To his true happiness?” she felt like she needed to double-check.
“To what truly fulfills him.”
Which was what? “Does he even know what that is?”
“The road he’s on will remind him what has always fulfilled him and how to achieve it again.”
“Again? He’s been fulfilled before? Please don’t say with that girl who betrayed him.”
“Okay.”
“It is!?” she cried with a blasted breath. “I do not want to be her replacement!”
“She was never theone, Cat. But I believe you are a more succinct fit.”
She paused at that, her pulse roaring. “And…what does AL think?”
“AL’s data has been heavily influenced by the emotional and psychological traumas of Ethan over the years."
“Which amounts to he doesn’t approve of me.”
“He does not.”
Okay. That was a big ouch. “Why?” she whispered, so damn sad about it.
