Chapter 45

• Leena kept busy at work. Although after taking a day off, she didn’t have to go looking to find things to keep her mind occupied. Her friends accepted she didn’t want to talk about any of it, and hadn’t pushed her. She was very proud of herself for not breaking down again. She had a few weak moments, and those she forgave herself for.
• It was those moments when she found herself alone in her office that were the hardest. She wanted to pick up the phone and call Owen and tell him she didn’t care about children and marriage and happily-ever-after, but she just wanted to be with him, just wanted what he could give of himself for as long as he could give it, and that would be all she’d ever ask for.
• It would all be a lie that would come back to haunt them both eventually, and that’s what stopped her from picking up the phone.