I thought I knew exactly what I was signing up for when I married Rowan. But a week after our wedding, I heard something behind a locked door that changed everything, and forced me to confront what love really looks like when no one else is watching.
When people ask how I met Rowan, I always say, “He made me laugh on the worst day of my life.”
What I never say is that I was sitting outside a hospital 30 minutes after my father died.
I was staring at rain on the pavement and thinking about giving up on everything. He rolled up in his wheelchair and handed me a coffee, straight black, no sugar, like he’d known me for years.
“You looked like you needed it more than me,” he said.
“He made me laugh on the worst day of my life.”
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