A Last Gift by Beca Lewis

Author:Beca Lewis [Beca Lewis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beca Lewis
Published: 2022-06-04T00:00:00+00:00

Thirty-One

Ron came home at the same time as he always came home. He knew how important it was for April to have a feeling of security, and keeping a schedule that made her life with him safe and comfortable was easy to do.

When he had to go out of town, April understood he couldn’t check-in, but he always returned to her, and April accepted that as enough.

Besides, she had told him it gave her a sense of freedom to do her own thing while he was gone. Neither of them added that her freedom remained within previously set guidelines. But that was only to keep her safe.

Ron thought back to the first time he saw April in class. She was perfect. Her brown curly hair made a kind of halo around her head when the light hit it a certain way, and when April turned her dark brown eyes to him, he felt as if he was the most important person in the world to her. She had captivated him from the beginning. She was his rock—always there for him and the kids.

It was uncharacteristic of him to have lost his temper that morning. He was proud of how cool and logical he always was, so it took him by surprise almost as much as it surprised April. And his anger and frustration had built until he was afraid of it himself and had to leave before he did something he regretted.

But it had been a one-time thing, and he was sure April would have forgotten it by now. They had an agreement. They were a unit together. When they were in college, they even named themselves Unit One. Their favorite song was “Just The Two Of Us.”

April gave him the freedom to be himself, and she was always there for him, as he was for her. Their children were an extension of the two of them. But now that the children had moved away, and they were back to just the two of them, he was even happier than before.

Then she got that letter and started talking about visiting Spring Falls, and to him, that meant she was breaking their agreement.

He was so used to her wanting and needing just him it had shocked him that she would think of needing anyone or anything else.

That’s what had set him off. April said she was going even if he wasn’t happy about it. Hadn’t just the two of them always been enough? Wasn’t it enough that she and Judith talked almost every week?

Yes, he knew about that. He hadn’t liked it, but it seemed harmless enough until that morning when he realized it was a crack in his control that he should have shut down long ago.

Didn’t April know he only wanted to keep their life the way it always had been? And of course, that’s what she wanted too. She just had forgotten for a moment.

So sure was Ron that he and April were still and always Unit One, that when he opened the garage door and didn’t see her car, he wasn’t worried.

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