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“We’ve only got a couple of weeks left of safe riding,” he said, thinking about her stomach Her balance For the previous two days he’d done all he could not to think of Isabella Of his daughter’s tiny touch

“Yeah”

“I guess we settle into a place where you call me if you need me after that,” he continued He had to take control Move on, even if he didn’t know quite yet where he was going Ahead, he knew that The practice was going well He still felt passionate about his job He just needed to start getting out s that weren’t work related

For the first year after Tricia’s death, he’d been consu the second, while he’d been waiting for state supreh to start dating

Now, he could get on with finding the love of his life Starting a family He had to do so for his own sanity He could not spend the rest of his life loving Amelia

“I’”

Her words couldnow, to once every couple of years, as he’d at first envisioned

“I’ to miss these rides,” she added

He’d still be riding But he was going to miss her—and still love her—despite his silence

So herself ure out what it was Because that’s what she didmade life about another person

Because it was the right thing to do

The non-selfish thing to do

Because if she didn’t please, others weren’t going to love her

Words froo came back to her out of nowhere Her therapist had told Amelia that her mother acted in a similar hen it came to the men in her life Amelia had learned from her

A Mike had asked, even when it had see to her, to prove her love To earn his love She knew all that