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“Sometimes, people hurt other people. It can happen on purpose or by accident. You can harm people out of fear, hatred, or selfishness, and it can make lasting impressions. My mother caused me great distress. She really did, but the choices I make for my life are my own. I no longer want to literally or figuratively carry around the weight of this letter or her choices. As I burn these pages, I’m letting go of how she affects me. I’m deciding that I am stronger than her weakness.”
And it feels damn good. It’s absolutely brilliant actually.
“Does this mean we’re crossing off another item from your list? Are you forgiving your mom?” Brazen grabs the last page from the envelope and helps to fuel the fire.
He’s helping me and standing by my side while I heal and release the ugliness that’s been trapped for years inside my heart. I couldn’t have asked for a better person to stand by my side while I purge.
“Yeah, I forgive her. Everything that we are is perfect, and I don’t want that tainted relationship to follow me into our future. You mean more to me than any sort of old resentment could. Living my best life with you is all I care about.”
I throw the envelope into the fire, and the flames eat it, sending up tiny embers of burning paper. I tilt my face upward to the sky. I am free. With this purification, I am completely unaccompanied by the burden that kept me captive in the orphanage and the affliction locked inside my heart.
“I knew you’d get here, Noah. Do you know I discover something new I love about you every day? I’m not just talking about the big things like this. I mean, every day, you amaze me and show me something new about yourself.”
I turn to face him and rest my hands on his shoulders while his fingers run through my hair. I can never get enough of the look he’s giving me right now or how it makes me feel. It’s like he can tell me everything he needs to say and everything I want to hear through his eyes. It’s like he’s telling me that I’m his world.
“If every girl could see themselves the way you see me, the world would be a better place.” I’m so damn lucky that I’m the one he sees as his perfection.
“You’re the woman of my fantasies, better than I ever could have thought I was waiting for.”
His nose brushes against mine, and then my legs grow weak.
I’m a girl who glorified romance movies. Prince Charming was a dream while I waited in the highest tower of my castle. Okay, it totally wasn’t a castle, but I was still trapped. Back then, I never could have dreamed up Brazen, but with my past burning in the fire behind me, I take his hand and know that what’s to come will be better than any fictional romance I’ve ever seen or read about. I have him in real life.
My prince in a dirty tool belt.
Reality is good.
