Prologue
The words she had waited years to hear finally came too late.
"I love you."
She stared at him.
After everything she'd imagined, she'd thought those words would make her happy. But they didn't.
Her smile fades. A tightness grips her chest. Her eyes fill with tears.
She remembers a time when he looked at her with tenderness. It had made her believe he loved her.
She looks deeply into his eyes, searching for the tenderness she once knew. There, she sees a familiar yearning.
She recognizes the yearning and tenderness she once loved, but something has changed. She realizes:
He may have loved her in his own way, but he had never loved her enough.
