“I’m sorry,” I said automatically.
“For what?”
I wiped my eyes.
“This is strange.”
“No.”
“It must be strange for you.”
“Julia.”
He waited until I looked at him.
“You loved him.”
“Yes.”
“You still love him.”
My throat tightened.
“Yes.”
“That isn’t a problem I need you to solve.”
I stared at him.
He slipped his hand into mine.
“There is room.”
Two words.
That was all.
But those two words unlocked something inside me that I had kept guarded for years.
There was room.
For grief.
For memory.
For new love.
For the woman I had been with Daniel and the woman I was becoming without him.
A heart did not have to evict one person to welcome another.
Adrian and Mia developed their own relationship slowly.
He never asked her to call him anything except Adrian.
She ignored this and cycled through several titles.
Mr. Kane.
