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moment. Don't let us down."
    "I should take a chance on love?" Lila looked to her friends for the answers. "On Trevor?"
    "You should definitely take a chance." Jenson smiled. "You'll never be able to live with yourself if you don't."
    " We won't be able to live with you if you don't," Cali said.
    "I wasn't that bad." Lila folded the extra blankets thrown over the chair.
    Neither of them said a word. They just looked at one another.
    "What?" Lila said.
    "Tell Trevor how you feel and what you want," Cali said. "We'll all live more peacefully that way."
    "Yes," Jenson said. "You were that bad."
    The three of them laughed. Lila felt something she hadn't felt in a long time.
    Relief. She no longer had to worry about her dad, she wasn't wondering what Trevor was up to or how his life turned out, and she was with her two best friends. Everything seemed right in her little world.

Chapter Ten
    Lila pushed the carton of Chinese food toward the center of the table.
    "You done?" Trevor stuck his fork in the container, spearing a shrimp.
    "I can't eat anymore." She hadn't eaten Chinese food in years. She used to do that with Trevor all the time, one more tradition she let go of, when she let go of him.
    "I haven't had Chef Lee's in forever," Trevor said. "It's as fantastic as I remembered."
    "You've been in town all this time. Why haven't you had Chinese in years?"
    "I don't know. I guess Mary Grace wasn't a fan." He shrugged. "We just never did."
    "This place is great." Lila looked around Trevor's home. "The view of the ocean is incredible."
    "Thanks. I was lucky the storm wasn't as big as they said it was going to be. I had little water damage. The people a few counties over didn't do as well."
    "I saw that on the news."
    He cleared the table as Lila loaded the dishwasher. "When did you move in
    here?"
    "Shortly after I found out about Jeremy not being mine. Mary Grace and I
    decided it was for the best. I thought they'd stay in our house, but when we found out about the treatment center, they decided to move. I think her parents are going to put their house on the market and move closer to her."
    Lila was glad she wouldn't be spending the night in the bed he'd shared with his ex-wife. "That will probably be a big help to Mary Grace."
    "I hope so."
    "You're very kind about the whole thing." Lila didn't understand why he wasn't more upset about the fact that he'd raised another man's child for six years, believing the boy was his.
    "He's still my son." He pulled her against his chest. "I wasn't meant to be with his mother, anyway. I knew that from the very beginning, but I married her anyway. I was just as wrong as she was."
    He tilted her chin and brushed his lips along her jaw.
    "I knew who my heart belonged to." He moved his mouth to hers. "Mary Grace knew, too. As hard as I tried to be a good husband, my heart still belonged to you. She looked past that."
    "So you looked past what she did?" Now his amicable divorce made sense.
    Trevor felt guilty for not being able to let go of his feelings for Lila.
    "What choice do I have? I love that little boy. Can you understand that?" He stroked her cheek. "Does it make me wrong, to get over the betrayal and just accept things the way they are?"
    "It makes you really smart." She kissed him. "You've more than exceeded my expectations, Trevor. You've turned into a wonderful man who should be proud of his accomplishments."
    "Are you going to stay with me? Give us another chance?"
    "I want to," she whispered, as she pressed her forehead to his.
    "What's wrong?" He took her face between his hands. "You don't sound real sure."
    "That's the first time I've said what I wanted out loud." She'd been fighting her feelings, because she was afraid she'd get hurt.
    "Do you mean it?" He put his lips to hers.
    "I want to try."
    "You can't run from me anymore," he said. "You have to promise that, no matter what life throws at us, you can't bolt. Can you promise me that?"
    "I think so, but you need to promise me