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Goodbye? Maybe

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Sage

I continued, quieter this time, “I mean, I guess I’m glad things are finally working out, for the three of us. Or at least, they were. You accepting what River and I have, trying to be honest about what you want… I thought we were finally reaching some kind of peace.”

He didn’t meet my eyes. “It didn’t mean I stopped caring.”

I swallowed hard. “But it did mean you don’t want this. Not really. You want monogamy. Simplicity. And I can’t give you that. Neither can River. Maybe the detective can.”

He finally looked up, sharp and unreadable. “You think I should give him a chance?”

I tried to smile, but it faltered. “He wants you. And he’s not caught in all this mess. Maybe he’s what you need.”

He didn’t answer. His silence felt louder than any rejection he could’ve given me.

I couldn’t believe I was saying this in the first place but isn’t that the growth I had embraced. If being with us doesn’t make him happy then he is free to go ahead and do his own thing.

It’s my job as his best f
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