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it out,” she said, needing to believe that.

      “Why couldn’t you?”

      Sunny had wondered the same thing many times in the past months.

      “We were too different in the end, I guess. We drifted apart in the past few years, and Nate...fell out of love with me.”

      Bron hesitated. “You think there’s someone else?”

      “That’s the classic reason, but I don’t think so—not that I need to know. How’s that for denial?” She paused for a moment and reconsidered. “No, I think I’m well into the anger stage now.” She told Bron about Nate’s phone calls, the ones she never answered. “I’m not going to help him get over whatever guilt he may feel.”

      “Maybe he wants you to come back,” Bron suggested.

      “And maybe he doesn’t,” Sunny replied.