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“That’s not whatto her face; tears fell froet the hell away froo”

“Don’t run away from us,” Winona said “We’re your fah this”

“Dallas isn’t going to get out of prison You were right about that And noants to divorce me”

“I rong about a lot of things, Vivi,” Winona said They were the words she’d waited too long to say

“I know you think I’ Luke, but I need advice, Win” Vivi Ann looked up at that

“I don’t hate you for hurting Luke,” Winona said, sighing “I hated you for being loved by him”

Vivi Ann frowned and wiped her eyes “What?”

“I’ve loved Luke Connelly since I was fifteen I should have told you”

It was a long time before Vivi Ann spoke, and when she did, her words ca theuess that makes it all make sense We Greys,” she said “We aren’t lucky in love, are we? So, what do I do, Win?”

Winona had known the answer to that question for years, had waited for it to be asked of her, and iined her response a hundred times And yet, now that the time had come, she finally understood how cruel the truth was and she couldn’t say it

“Tell me,” Vivi Ann said, and in her broken voice, Winona knew that Vivi already understood the answer; she just needed her big sister’s help to admit it

“You need to stop being Dallas’s wife and start being Noah’syou”

“Noah deserves so much better than the mother I’ve been”

Winona went to her finally, took her youngest sister in her aret over this, I proain”

Vivi Ann looked up, and in her gaze was a sadness so deep Winona couldn’t touch the bottom of it “No,” she said at last “I won’t”