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I regarded the headstones. Simple and perfect, just how they were to me. I was still head of the family but Aiden’s betrayal had caused quite a few rifts, and I couldn’t abandon them until they were all mended.
No one argued with me about dedicating more time to being a doctor, and Finn and Oscar made sure to have my back…They owed me everything.
“You should see the world,” Vincenzo said.
“What?”
“You said Aine wanted to travel, see things she only dreamed of. You should do it. Go to every destination on her list.”
I loved that idea. “I don’t get a lot of time off from the hospital right now.”
He hummed. “But you get vacation time, and you don’t need to do it all at once. But, Fred.” He gripped my shoulders and I gave him my attention.
“What?”
“You are alive. So go and live. Make every moment count, and I’ll be right by your side for all of it.”
“Here? In Westford?”
He was silent for a beat. “If that’s where you are, so am I.”
I looked down briefly. “I can’t ask that of you.”
“You’re not. It’s where you need to be right now, and you’re who I choose to be with and so, here we are.”
“You’re going to move Lex Talionis to Westford?”
His smile widened as if he were the Cheshire cat.
“Oh, my God!” I gasped. “You already did, didn’t you?”
He shrugged. “Maybe.”
He gripped my hand and we walked to the car. “You’re crazy.”
“Crazy about you.” He kissed my cheek.
“And cheesy.”
“I love cheese.”
I laughed and he opened the car door.
“What am I going to do with you, Vincenzo Belini?”
He leaned in, mere inches from my face. “Keep me?”
I nodded. “Yeah.”
EPILOGUE
Fred
“The end…or really the beginning.” I smiled softly at Rush and Simon as they looked at me with wide eyes.
“I don’t understand why Snow didn’t tell me any of this,” Simon huffed.
“Haven Hart knows as much as I’ve shared and before today, I hadn’t told anyone every part of it.” I sighed, my gaze drifting to a group of hummingbirds happily drinking from the feeder.
