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His set to see you go"

Farewell for now, my love I say it in the silence of my head, but he hears

For now, he replies And don’t think I’ll go those eight turns without seeing you I will come for you Always

That sounds like a promise, but one unasked We can’t be sure what the future holds I understand if you need to find apartner Someone to help you raise Sasha I understand I do, I do, even if that generous offer threatens to break h me That’s why I love you Thank you, Jax But in him I sense the resolve not to Sasha doesn’t need anyone else, he thinks, and ht only be unsettled He’ll wait, like he proets older and , or I can visit here It’s not is always are with us "Always" is a word that carries both ic and despair I clutch it to my heart like a bladed fan

I run then; I can’t bear any his finely furnished living roonizes me and lets me out, and I weep silently in the lift, which takes round, unasked March stays with uish a, too

Not for me, I tell him Don’t let Sasha see you sad We’ll be fine I’ll comm

Me, too, love

The tenuous connection breaks as I stop on the first floor I’m too far away froand walk backward until I can see his aparto, as he proainst the starry sky He puts his palm up, and I feel the heat of his touch across the distance I am not the woman to raise a child with him, but I am the one he loves

There will be a someday

Then I turn and hurry toward the hover-cab stand I a Even as I step into the cab and it lifts, so does s are possible, proain And he will be waiting Always