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Ronan shook his head “No, never,” he admitted “But let o?”

I shot Ronan a glance “What?”

“Did he ever ask you to choose?”

I thought back to my conversations with Tate and realized that he hadn’t All he’d ever done was ask about Revay…like he’d wanted to know more about her I’d been the one who’d decided I needed to choose between them

“What if I always see her when I look at hihit had been him instead of her?”

I blinked back the tears that threatened as I considered what it would be like if Tate were gone and I shookI’d answered my own question Just like I couldn’t choose Tate over Revay, I wouldn’t have been able to choose her over hi with my head so I clian walking

“Why did you hang on to this house, Hawke?”

“What?” I asked as I looked overme

“Your uncle’s house,” Ronan said as he motioned to the weathered structure behind me I turned around to face the house that wasn’t really a house anyether by a few nails I hadn’t been inside the house even once since I’d left with Revay for Georgia, but I had no doubt it was just as much of a mess on the inside as it was on the outside

I’d inherited the house after ht as to what I should do with it But I knew the answer to Ronan’s question I’d kept the house because despite all the bad ood one

Revay

Just like I’d crawled through hersoMy eyes fell to the first floorthat had been my bedroom I’d always been in so s, both physically and emotionally, and she’d always been there, curled at ht She’d promisedsongs to s she’d made up – until I’d fallen asleep