“She changed it first,” he added softly.
I glanced at my daughter.
She grinned. “I told you.”
He turned back to me, holding a small ring box.
“I don’t want the life I had before you,” he said. “I want this one. With both of you.”
My eyes filled with tears.
“Will you marry me?”
Lily whispered loudly, “Say yes.”
I laughed through my tears.
“Yes.”
Epilogue
At our wedding, Lily stood proudly between us.
“I told everyone this would happen,” she announced.
Alexander laughed—that same real, warm laugh I’d first heard in a hallway.
And this time…
It felt like home.
Sometimes life doesn’t fall apart when everything changes.
Sometimes—
it finally comes together.
