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Mason was always an inclusive kind of boyfriend, the typeout with and iddy with exciteement, my mom had burst into happy tears and my dad had been thrilled to finally, in his words, “have a son”

Aria deserves someone like that, a man ill make her life fuller and richer, not harder and lonelier I hope someday I can help her find someone like that Someone like Mason

And yes, Mason screwed up, too, but not like Liaed soul as afraid he didn’t have what it took to be a good husband But instead of letting that fear drag hi the help he needed to learn to have faith in himself

And then he’d coht for me For us

I’ain, that all the pain from the past feels like it happened in another lifetime

That’s the thing about being in love: it feels so good, you want everyone to have the sas of happiness and anticipation into the fluffy, pink clouds of happily ever after

Even after only a few days, you tend to forget the heartbreak, to block out theleft alone and betrayed

You forget, until so—or someone—forces you to remember

Chapter 19

Aria

I wake up early

Very early, considering I stayed up until ot up to feed Felicity at two thirty, and then again at five But for some reason, my eyes fly open at six fifteen and stay that way, fixed on the ceiling while an unexpected sense of dread—like a raincloud sweeping in to hover over the bed,me with its ominous, black belly—swells inside me

It’s…strange

There’s no reason to feel so off-center, not when I went to bed happier than I’ve been in months