Chapter 34 - when my husband asked if i was finally free
One evening, her husband found Jessi sitting alone in the garden.
“You're quiet.”
“Thinking.”
“About what?”
“Freedom.”
He sat beside her.
“Are you free?”
She smiled.
“Yes.”
“Completely?”
She looked at him.
“I think so.”
“What changed?”
“I used to define freedom as getting away from Luca.”
“And now?”
“Freedom is not needing to think about him.”
He smiled.
“That sounds better.”
“It is.”
She leaned against him.
“I used to wake up wondering what someone wanted from me.”
“And now?”
“I wake up wondering what I want.”
He kissed her forehead.
“That's freedom.”
She smiled.
Then laughed.
“What?”
“I just realized something.”
“What?”
“My first wedding taught me what control looked like.”
“And the second?”
“What love looks like when nobody owns anyone.”
He smiled.
“I'll take that.”
They sat quietly.
No dramatic music.
No revelation.
Just peace.
And Jessi realized peace was not boring.
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It was everything she had once been denied.
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