Page 150 of The Vet's Unconditional Love
I love you, Emmett.Even from the beyond.
We didn't get the long life we wanted to spend together, but you made mine beautiful.The years we had, the love we shared, the girls we made, they were more than most people get even if they live to be a hundred.
Remember that and be the man you are.Create a new life, a new love.Live it well.
Emily
PS, if it turns out there is a heaven and we all meet up there later, I might not be so understanding!
Tears were rolling freely down his face even as he laughed quietly to himself.
"Love you, Em.Forever," he murmured before reading the whole thing through again.
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Harper turned the envelope over and over in her hands.Every time she read the words on the front, she turned them away from her.
For the woman who will love Emmett.
That was her all right.She loved him with all her heart, and she loved the girls the same way.
And yet some small part of her still waited for someone to tell her she'd mistaken her place.
That she'd never really belonged there at all.
And now, just when she'd thought that she'd finally found the family she'd always wanted, here was Emily.
Emmett's wife.
The girls' mom.
Part of her wanted to drown the envelope in the creek and pretend it had never existed.
But she wasn't that scared girl anymore.
She was a grown woman who loved a good man and his daughters.
She looked at Emily's curly handwriting again.She was, as it declared, the woman who loved Emmett.
And Emily wasn't the enemy.
Of course Emmett still loved her, but Harper loved that about him.She didn't feel as though there was any competition.If anything, she felt a bond with Emily.
They'd both fallen for the same man.
Loved the same girls.
She opened the envelope carefully and slid the sheet of paper out.
Hi.
I don't know your name, but if you're reading this, you know mine.
You'll have heard it from Emmett and from the girls probably a thousand times by now.I know Libby wouldn't give you this letter until she was damn sure of you.
So, congratulations, I guess!
Emmett’s a wonderful man.But you know that for yourself—he’s your man now.
