Cordia's eyes widened as she glanced down at the ring on her finger. "What?" she asked Will, realizing at last what the misconception must be. "You know I don't have feelings for Carey. I wrote you. I told you, I never even said yes."
Will had spent ample time imagining how this conversation might go on his long and arduous trip home. His emotions had gotten the best of him several times, and he had run the gamut from extreme anger at her deception to despair. Now, face to face with the woman he had spent so much time thinking of and longing for throughout the course of his service, he couldn't help but think of what might have been, if only she had been honest with him. There was one thought that kept returning to him time and again, and now, faced with the opportunity to voice it to her
