If you ask her to follow you, she will. Please don’t make her choose between you and the life she can build here. If you care about her, give her room to become her own person.
Thomas.”
“She has a real future.”
Tears ran down my face. I looked up.
“My father sent this?”
“Before I left for college. He knew
about the ring. I showed it to him, because I asked for his blessing.”
I sat down.
“What did he say?” I asked, although I had an idea.
“I showed it to him.”
“That we were too young. That you’d give up anything if I asked because you were loyal to me.”
I looked at the letters in the box.
“So you eventually started a new life?”
“I tried to hold on, but eventually I thought I was helping you.”
“You never even asked what I wanted.”
