“One day doesn’t repair the years we lost.”
“I know.”
“I’m still angry.”
“You should be.”
“But Lily deserves to know about Adam.”
“I would be grateful for the chance to tell her.”
Tony and I would deal with his decision later. He had crossed a boundary, and forgiveness would take time.
That day, however, belonged to Lily.
Before sunset, she asked a hotel employee to take one final photograph. We gathered awkwardly behind her wheelchair.
She pointed toward Tony, Robert, and me.
“Stand together.”
I hesitated.
“Please.”
“Why all of us?” I asked.
Lily smiled.
“Because I want everyone who came for me in the same picture.”
The employee raised the camera. Tony stood beside the daughter he had chosen, Robert beside the granddaughter he had nearly lost, and I between my new family and an unhealed past.
In front of us, Lily smiled as the sunset reflected across the ocean.
For one brief moment, nothing was missing.
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