Madelyn patted him on the cheek. “Yes, it is.”
“Are you upset?” Roderick asked.
Madelyn laughed loudly in a way that Roderick had not heard her laugh in years.
“Hardly,” she said. “If anything, I’m relieved. You don’t know how worried I’ve been that you wouldn’t meet anyone and that after a while you would suggest we get back together. I was going to feel so bad breaking your heart, especially when I know that us being together again is nothing that either of us would ever really want.”
Roderick was silent for a moment, allowing the information to sink in. Finally, understanding her far better than he probably had in years, he asked, “Have you met someone?”
“Many someones,” she said. “I have met many different possibilities. I can’t tell you how long I waited to be really wanted by so
