are still good things worth finding.”
“I don’t believe in happily ever after,” Giana warned. “In
case that’s not obvious.”
“Neither do I, because that’s nonsense. Unless you work for
it and keep believing the good things are coming, because
maybe that can be true. But it doesn’t just happen.”
Didn’t it, though? Coralyn had walked into her office and
ever since then, life had been anything but happy, and
everything had changed. It was painful, maybe one of the most
painful things that Giana had to do since Heather died, but she
was here, feeling things she thought were long dead, wanting
things she didn’t know she could still want. For once, looking
forward instead of looking over her shoulder to the past. Even
if she didn’t believe in fate, standing here right now was still
right and beautiful and an awakening when she’d needed to be
shaken back to life.
“Good things are coming,” she echoed, wanting desperately
to believe it.
Coralyn nodded. “For us.” She clasped Giana’s hands in
hers. “I believe that. Do you?”
In the past, she would have said yes and not meant it. She
would have said no and broken someone else’s heart just to
keep hers safe. She wasn’t in the past anymore. “I think I’d
like to. I also think that nothing has felt right in my life
without you. You crashed into it and you made everything
unrecognizable. If I hadn’t come here, I know it would just be
me responsible for destroying everything. I’m not going there
again. This time, I’m doing it the hard way and doing all the
feelings stuff. I’m going to choose that, even if I’m entirely
inexperienced and a lot of stuff is going to come out so wrong.