Chapter 13: The Question
That was a month ago.
Charlotte quit the delivery job two weeks later, not because I told her to, but because she finally believed she had other choices.
She and her brother moved in.
Her brother likes me, which I consider one of the greatest achievements of my life.
Last Sunday, I asked Charlotte to marry me.
She said yes before I finished the question.
Now Aunt June cries over flower samples when she thinks no one is watching, and Uncle Ray keeps walking around my kitchen eating snacks he did not buy while acting like he personally invented love.
This morning, he looked at Charlotte over his coffee and said, “I knew you two were headed somewhere the minute I saw you at prom.”
Charlotte laughed.
“Good trouble?”
“The only kind worth having,” he said. Epilogue: The Girl Who Made Me Human Again ⬇️
