I thought Michael was only trying to secure my future. I had no idea he was also trying to rewrite my past – or what Ethan had promised him before he died.
Michael was the kind of husband women pray for.
We’d been married fifteen years and had three children: Lily, fourteen, Noah, eleven, and Sophie, seven.
Michael ran a successful logistics company. I knew approximately as much about it as I knew about nuclear submarines.
“You should learn this stuff,” my husband used to tease.
“You should learn how to separate whites from colors.”
“You turned Noah’s socks pink.”
“They looked better.”
That was us.
Michael also had a habit of deciding what was best for me before I did.
After weeks of debating whether to drop a difficult client, Michael called them himself.
“You hated that job.”
“That wasn’t your decision.”
“No,” he admitted. “But you were never going to make it.”
The annoying part was, I’d wanted to quit.
I handled the house, kids, and freelance work. Michael handled anything involving “quarterly projections.”
I couldn’t ask for help.
Once, Michael found me carrying three grocery bags, Sophie, and a broken chair from the car.
“Are you insane?”
“The chair is literally hanging from your elbow.”
“I still had it.”
After that, he stopped waiting for me to ask.
Then Michael got stage-four cancer. Treatment could buy time, nothing more.
Six months later, beside his hospital bed, he grabbed my wrist. “Promise me something.”
“Marry Ethan.”
I actually laughed.
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