Out loud.
My hand coming to my mouth.
Not because of the words highlighted on the page:
Wait and Hope.
But the words written beneath.
I’m done waiting and hoping…
And underneath that, sitting where the pages have been cut to create a hole just big enough… is a ring…
Thering.
“You asked me before what we were doing here,” he says, and I force myself to take a breath before turning to him. He takes my trembling hands in his, kissing the tips of my fingers before sliding the ring where it belongs. “I wanted us to be exactly where we were when my life changed forever. We were right here when I asked you for your name, and you said it was Olivia… but all I heard wasLiv… and every day since, that’s all I’ve wanted to do…Live.”
The end
