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She laughed “See you when you get back Let’s do a workout Maybe I can knock some sense into you”

“Oorah”

“Oorah, yourself,” she said and ended the call

When the webinar was finished, I packed up ear and drove down the strip to the Lewis house I quickly dropped off the package of letters in their mailbox at the end of the driveway

I kept the photos for myself

I know I should have gone up to the door and dropped the letters off in person so I could shake hands with Dan’s parents and offer my thanks, even if I couldn’t really tell them why, but I didn’t

I drove off, leaving Topsail Beach with a sick feeling in ht instead of fucking everything up so thoroughly

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Miranda

I ym, and then went back home to have a shower before my afternoon shift

When I arrived at the house, Scott aiting for e in his hand

“What’s that?” I asked, putting down

“It’s addressed to you I found it in our ”

I took the package and went to the island in the kitchen It was a FedEx package that was addressed to me, but it hadn’t been actually sent There was no return address I opened it up and inside was a manila envelope with Dan’s name written on the outside

“It’s addressed to Dan” I frowned and opened the flap Inside were two dozen letters wrapped in a blue foil ribbon I recognized them at once as the letters I’d sent to Dan while he was on deployment I read the first few sentences of one letter, and then sorted through them – thirty letters, written on airmail paper, in my tiny scrawl Love letters I wrote to hi Dated from a week after ere married, they detailedto class at John Jay in Manhattan, ether now that we had tied the knot