You have a right to learn all of this. I just might not have as much time to teach you as I thought.

Bess

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Jean, you were right. I think I am still working through Kate’s death even when I tell myself I’m not. I’ve decided to join a widower’s support group. I want to be with you, and I want to be the best version of myself for you. Call me when you come up for air.

Carson

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Ace: Shouldn’t you be resting?
Nancy: This is no time to rest. I’m still all in.
Ace: I was thinking maybe we slow down a sec, and we can talk this thing through.
Nancy: What is there to talk about?
Ace: I don’t know. If there is a death curse on us, maybe it would be better to not fight it and exist in a world together as friends.
Nancy: Did you not feel what I felt?
Ace: Of course I did. But then you weren’t breathing, and I was holding you in my arms and going through everything that you went through in Temperance’s hallucination, and it was awful.
Nancy: Yeah.
Ace: And I totally get why you were hesitant to tell me the truth.
Nancy: Right, but I’m not scared anymore. I let fear keep me away from you for too long.
Ace: Temperance was a hundred steps ahead of us. This time she got to the flowers. Next time it could be something else. No matter what we try, she could have sabotaged it.
Nancy: She said you were going to die, and you didn’t.
Ace: No, but watching you collapse almost killed me. Say we do try again, and maybe we think we broke the curse. How will we ever know that she didn’t plant another twist? We will always be looking over our shoulders. What kind of future is that?

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Nancy: I am in this because of you. You said this is what you wanted.
Ace: I still do. I want to be with you more than anything, but it is not worth the risk. We were friends before for a long time. Even when we had secret feelings for each other, we shoved them down, and we could still be in each other’s lives. We managed.
Nancy: I know what it’s like to kiss you now! And for that to be real and not some hallucination, and I can’t pretend that never happened. I can’t go back.
Ace: I can’t go forward. Not like this.

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Nancy: What about the sunset in Paris? And the hot air balloon ride?
Ace: It would have been perfect.
Nancy: You’re not just leaving.
Ace: It hurts too much to be here.

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