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“Until Sawyer”

She sniffled “Yeah, until Sawyer”

The s Clover expected to see after laying everything out there like she had

“It’s true,” her ave up a lot when I ained a lot more than I lost Not to mention I didn’t have to marry your father I chose to because I loved him, and I wanted to spend the rest of e like it’s a zero suame with only one winner and loser, but it’s not like that There’s round There’s compromise Your father and I have both made sacrifices, but it’s worth it because we have each other”

The words hit horound That’s what Helene had said Sawyer had trouble finding Up until thisit, too, but herher life on an all or nothing loop

“Do you ever regret it?” She sed past the eht and asked the question she’d been wanting to voice ever since that overheard conversation when she was eleven “Do you ever regret having me?”

“Never,” her mom said, her voice firm “I love your father I love you and your brother Would I have gone globetrotting if I hadn’t married your father? Maybe But if you spend your life just looking for the next big thing because you’re so afraid ofout, then you’re bound to miss out on what you already have”

Is that what she’d been doing? Looking so far off into the horizon that she was as guilty ofthe details as Saas? “So you think I should have said yes?”

“Do you love him?” her mom asked

For all the good it did her “Yes”

“Does he love you?”

“No,” shedespite the bone-deep pain ripping her up “He said I’d be a good teammate”

Her h this You always do”

Yeah, but before she’d never realized she was running blindly Everything had made so inal plan and found a regular temp job to pay for my Australian adventure Then, none of this would have happened”

“You can’t say that Life has a way of working out hoants to, not necessarily how you iined it would,” herthe rainforest variety, so your heart—and that kind are just as important”