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Quinn and I had been very open and honest in our relationship. We both knew that one of us would have to lose in order to make this thing work.
And since my brother was all I had left in this world, I’d been selfishly hoping that we could somehow figure out a way to make it work without that happening.
I was wrong.
“But…” I said again, unsure what to say.
“There’s nothing more that you can say or do to change my mind,” he said. “This is my dream. Something I’ve always wanted to do.”
And his dream superseded me.
Even though my heart was breaking, I understood.
This was his dream.
I couldn’t take anyone’s dream away from them. Even if, in the interim, my heart was breaking and my dream was dissolving right before my eyes.
Thoughts of being Quinn Carter’s beloved, bearing his children, and being a stay-at-home mom were just that. Thoughts.
They’d never be my dream again.
I was numb.
I didn’t know how to function without him by my side.
The last two months had dragged by, and I thought graduation would never arrive.
Yet, the last day before I could call myself ‘graduated,’ I decided I needed some ice cream.
I knew thanks to Ande, my best friend, that they were back from Quaid, Quinn, and Quincy’s police academy graduation.
They’d arrived back late last night.
And it was my hope to get a glimpse of him.
I’d missed him.
My heart physically ached each and every day that I didn’t get to see him.
Therefore, I was torturing myself by going to our favorite place, just in hopes that he’d be there for me to sneak a peek.
I thought for sure he’d be there with his family.
But he wasn’t.
He was there with someone, all right. But it was with a woman-someone.
It was that date that did it.
I thought maybe he would’ve waited longer than two months to move on, but apparently I was wrong. I was the only one stuck in this wallered out hole I’d created after our breakup.
He’d moved on, and it was time for me to move on, too.
I drove home with a knot in my throat that threatened to explode at any second.
My fingers were all but numb as I made the final turn into our driveway.
Luckily, my brother wasn’t there. He had his own place but spent a good deal of time at our grandmother’s house.
