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“I choose you, Finn,” she choked out. “Always you.”

But she didn’t have to make that vow.

I wasn’t the one who’d been betrayed.

“I’ll spend the rest of my life working toward your forgiveness, Aoife.”

A shaky sigh escaped her as she shook her head. “A fresh start, Finn. That’s what we both need.”

“Is moving apartments enough?”

She appeared to consider that but admitted after a couple seconds, “I love my sisters-in-law; I even love my brothers-in-law. I don’t want to be away from them. I don’t want Jake to be away from them either.”

“Maybe it’s time we started our own traditions?”

An interested gleam appeared in her eyes. “What do you mean?”

“How about a Saturday night dinner?”

“So they can still go to their parents’ but we won’t lose touch?”

I nodded. “What do you think?”

Hope appeared to unfurl inside her, tipping the corners of her lips into a beautiful smile. “I like the sound of that.”