Graham:
I don’t know if there’s a correct way to explain it, but seeing her with Sawyer, her husband, made me feel like my life had ended.
Suddenly, all my fears had come to life, and I felt like a fool.
All this time, I convinced myself she was lying about having a husband, that she was only using him as an excuse to hide from us, to keep her distance, to prove that we had lost her.
I thought she just wanted to show she had a home to go back to.
But now, I realized she wasn’t the same Madeline I once knew.
I had lost the chance to be her friend, to be her everything.
My father kept stealing glances at me, giving me that look that said, ‘I told you so. You should have listened to me.’
After she signed the papers, her husband held her close, and the two of them walked back home toge
