Five Years of Secret Love, He Married My Best Friend novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Luna
"Say it," I said.
Calla walked in out of the gray light with the whole hall watching.
She stopped ten feet from me, which was the right distance.
She was thinner than she had been three days ago.
Her hands were not folded.
They hung at her sides.
"I brought you something," she said.
She unzipped the duffel and took out a folded blanket.
It was gray wool with a red stripe at the hem, and a darn near the corner that I had stitched myself.
My blanket, from the records house.
"I washed it," she said. "It didn't help. It still smells like you."
"That was the cure, you know. It wasn't ever the blood."
"I'd have wanted that even if it had been a lie."
She held it out with both hands.
"I'm not going to ask you to forgive me. I know what I did."
"I sat next to you for twelve years and wanted something you had, and the whole time you would have given me anything else."
"You would have given me your coat."
Her voice broke on the last word, and she let it.
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