The Envelope That Changed Everything

okay?

He hit send before he could overthink it.

The reply came minutes later.

Okay. Thank you. I promise.

Thomas stared at those words until the screen dimmed.

Promise.

He’d spent so many months making promises to Lily he wasn’t sure he could keep. Promises he’d say because she needed them, because her world felt safer with certainty.

Now he was asking a continue reading …