Chapter 3
“You…made a mistake?” I repeated just to hear the words, but they didn’t make any more sense when I said them.
“Yes. I was wrong.”
Cooper’s voice was a low rumble and my eyelids flew open. Never, in five years of our relationship, had I ever heard him say he was wrong. To anyone. About anything.
“I don’t…” I had to take a breath. “You don’t say that. What the hell, Cooper?”
My mind was spinning, because seriously, this could not be happening. Had he been replaced with a pod person? Was that why he was suddenly here, after three years, trying to make amends and saying things he’d never said?
His expression appeared sad, and he took a step toward me, but stopped when I held up a hand. He took a deep breath, and then another, and finally gave me a wistful sort of smile.
“When
