My sister lifted her glass, called me “just a nurse” in front of the entire wedding, and the room laughed with her—until the groom’s father looked straight at me like he’d seen a ghost and said five words that changed the air in the room

The air had cooled. I could feel it on my bare arms. And I didn’t mind, because at least it was honest.

“Reagan.”

I turned. Aaron stood in the doorway, his suit wrinkled, his face undone. He looked like a man who had just watched something collapse and realized he had been standing on it.

“I didn’t know,” he said. “About the highway. About Richard.”

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