Chapter 276

“Part of it was you,” she admitted. “There still is a huge part of me that wishes to God I hadn’t left here when I did. I wonder where we would be. Would we be celebrating our tenth wedding anniversary? Would we have kids? What would you be doing? What would I be doing? I wonder that all the time.”

“I do too.” Drew grabbed her hands and pulled her down to his level. “Back then I thought of it every day. There wasn’t a day that went by that I didn’t see something in another couple that I had envisioned us doing. For the first few years, it killed me. Finally, I got to where I could function, but it never felt right.”

“It didn’t,” Charity agreed. “But I had to get away, not only for myself, but for you too. After biting Dixon, he came back, but this time he came when my mom wasn’t there.”