I picked one up and sat across from him.
“I don’t want to lose you, Mattie,” he said softly, “but I finally understand that I’ve been losing you already by loving you like you were about to go.”
“I don’t need more time with you.
I need to stop wasting the time I have.
I can’t promise I won’t be afraid.
But I can promise I won’t turn that fear into a future you’re forced to live in.
I want to be here with you… while you’re here with me.
Not ahead of it. Not after it. Just here.”
And for the first time…
I believed him.
I looked down at the letter in my hands.
Nathan had been preparing to lose me…
Before he ever allowed himself to have me.
But I wasn’t going to live like that.
If I stayed…
It wouldn’t be to prove him wrong.
It would be to teach him how to love someone who was still here.
And for the first time that night—
We were standing in the same moment.
Together.
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