Scarlett POV
Before I’d been kidn*pped, I’d once believed that if I just tried hard enough, Jaxen would eventually fall in love with me.
I’d thought we’d spend our whole lives together.
That fantasy had been destroyed a long time ago.
Life had turned out nothing as I imagined.
Before my divorce, I never would have believed I’d one day sit in a movie theater with another man.
Watching a movie could mean nothing between two friends.
Maybe they just wanted something to do.
But when it was a young man and woman, and the man had already admitted that he liked the woman, there was bound to be some ambiguity.
I wasn’t sure what Ryan and I were doing counted as a date.
But the movie was genuinely good.
The acting was excellent. The story worked. The soundtrack was beautiful.
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