Not reject it.

I believed every word of it.

I believed he was sorry, I believed he had worked it out in a car, I believed he would have given anything to have that morning back.

I simply declined to let his being sorry be the end of it.

Part Sixty-Five: Not When You Are

“I’m going to do my recovery at my mother’s,” I said.

“And I’ll work out what happens with us when I’m ready to.