Devney Perry

“How do we get past this? How do we get past the worst days?”

“By making more of the best.” He kissed the top of my hair and let me go, shifting to dig something from his pocket. “I was going to wait until tomorrow. Give it to you when we opened gifts. But after everything that’s happened, waiting feels like wasting time.”

I shifted, trying to spy what he had in his fist. But he’d closed it in his palm.

It was only after he dropped to a knee that he loosened his hand, revealing a perfect diamond ring.

“Marry—”

I made a mistake I’d always regret. I got drunk at a friend’s bachelorette party.

I had sex with another man.

The next day, I told Finn the truth. I told him how I was at rock bottom. That I loved him and desperately wanted to revive our marriage. I begged him for forgiveness.

He told me to get a lawyer

When she turned to me and smiled, the whole restaurant disappeared.

When she turned to me and smiled, the whole restaurant disappeared.

“Those two won’t even know we’re missing.”

Finn tossed his uneaten crust onto his plate

I held out my hand, palm up.

I liked the idea of a man courting a woman.

When he jumped out of his comfort zone because she was worth the risk.

“I think you should go.”