His mother told me he was dead and blamed me for it. Two months later, I overheard a conversation that made me question everything I’d been grieving.
“What did you tell her?”
Nick was staring at his mother.
Susan’s face had changed.
“Nick, go back inside.”
He didn’t move.
“What did you tell Hannah?”
I was standing near the patio with a package crushed against my chest.
My hands were shaking so badly that the cardboard rattled.
For two months, I’d believed Nick was dead.
For two months, I’d woken up reaching for a man I thought I’d never see again.
And now he was standing ten feet away from me.
Alive. Confused. Angry.
Richard came up behind me. “Enough, Susan.”
She turned on him. “Stay out of this.”
“No.”
His voice was calm. That made it worse.
“Tell them what really happened.”
Susan shook her head. “No.”
Nick looked between his parents.
Then at me. “Hannah, what are you talking about?”
I stared at him. “Your mother called me.”
“When?”
“The morning after the accident.”
His expression changed. “What accident?”
I laughed. It sounded awful.
“Nick.”
He took one step toward me. “Hannah, what accident?”
My name is Hannah. I’m 32.
Nick and I were supposed to get married in September.
A month before the wedding, we had the worst argument of our relationship.
It started over money.
Nick wanted to use part of our savings to help his younger brother.
I said we couldn’t keep solving every family emergency.
He said, “You make everything sound like a transaction.”
I said, “Because every month somebody needs money.”
Then he said the one thing he knew would hurt. “Maybe Mom was right about you.”
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