Chapter 16 — Forgiveness Isn’t Surrender

In all of it, from that night through the long unwinding that followed, Hazel never once asked me to rescue him.

That was how I knew that the deepest wound in her had finally, quietly closed.

For years she had been the one who begged me to go easy on Garnet, to smooth it over, to give him one more chance and then another.

Her love for him had always overridden her own hurt.