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My life feeling more empty.
My heart aching once again.
I got out of the car and walked to the front door.
When I opened it, I felt someone grab my right hand.
“Hazel, look at me,” Hannah said.
I turned. “What?”
“He’s here,” she whispered. “He didn’t get on a plane and leave. He’s here.”
“For now. I know where this ends up. I just want to be by myself, Hannah. I want my daughter in my arms.”
“I know you do,” she said. She touched my face. “What do you think he’s thinking right now too? You two have a connection. Together. Through Juniper Evelyn. And now through this experience.”
“Experience, huh? Like… I bought a ticket?”
“Actually, I bought the tickets,” Hannah said. She offered a smile. “And I set you and him up.”
“Don’t remind me,” I said.
I looked beyond Hannah and saw Atlas standing outside his truck.
I hated that he respected how I felt.
It would have been easier for him to get mad at me and take off.
Instead, he was there.
I couldn’t ask him to stay. Or to retire. Or do anything with his life that he didn’t want.
It wasn’t fair.
That didn’t mean we weren’t going to be in each other’s lives.
We had our daughter to take care of.
I had no doubt in my mind or heart that he’d be a great father to Juniper Evelyn.
But everything else?
I shook my head.
I opened mouth, almost ready to say sorry to Atlas.
What did Atlas do?
He nodded back at me.
He touched his chest, right over his heart.
Then he took out his cellphone and casually showed it to me.
A reminder that he was always a phone call away.
Or a text.
