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“What is it?”
“Evolve?” Ruby exhales “It e To learn from experience”
“You sounded like you don’t like it here Do you like it here?” Noises of standing, stepping out of the tub, send me from the door into the hallway I don’t mean to eavesdrop, but I have to hear Ruby’s answer
“I like you” Ruby carries her into the bedroom, and I can see from the doorway Lillie’s wrapped in a hooded towel “I like your pretty house and arden”
No mention of me My jaw clenches, and I think about what happened at dinner Ruby was eager to get ahen Eleanor brought out the port
“Are you going to go out with Henry?” Ruby pauses in scrubbingmy breath
“I don’t know”
Her answer pisses me off more than it probably should
Or hell, ht amount? Go out with Henry Pak? Leave here? After e’ve shared? Turning onin etting any work done tonight Not with all these thoughts racing in my mind
Leaving my work station, I storm down to o to the dresser and take out a tee and so pants In less than fivedown the circle driveway and out to the path leading past our house and through this expansive neighborhood, around the lake
Every lot in Eagleton Heights is two acres It ers I loop past the condos, where I no Dr Pak is setting up residence Without even thinking I pop the bird at the new construction before circling around to where I started
My legs burn with exertion, and I’m covered in a sheen of shen I arrive back at the house I drop my hoodie in a basket in the laundry roo upstairs for a new one Luckily a stack of folded clothes sits on the drier, and I grab a white undershirt from it
I didn’t eat ed out that port I don’t knohat kind of reaction she expected me to have, but I’ot My feelings about those days are only good
I never believed I would get here, but five years out, I look back on my honeymoon and the short time I had with my wife as cherished memories A blessed time, followed by one of the darkest times of my life
When I was in therapy, Drew said I would eventually get to this place of peace with the past, and a desire for a future I didn’t believe her, but now it seeht Those memories will always live in h t