Leo tilted his head gently.
“Aurora, I know where that fear comes from.”
“That’s the part that scares me.”
He squeezed my hand.
“No, I mean it,” I said. “My first instinct was to assume the worst about you. About us.”
My voice cracked.
“My mother didn’t just cut me off. She left something inside me.”
Leo said nothing.
“This little voice that says nobody stays for free.”
He looked directly into my eyes.
“I’m not going anywhere.”
His voice was calm.
“And nothing in that envelope has a string attached.”
I swallowed.
“Then why does it feel like I’m the one who almost broke something tonight?”
“You didn’t break anything.”
“You just wanted the truth,” I whispered.
I looked down at the second envelope.
