Ivy snorts. “You can say that again.” Then she smiles. “And more happiness than last time,” she rubs her tummy.
Winter blinks and blushes a little at the frankness. She looks into Charlie’s eyes. “I want to let go of him, trust me. Every time I think I’m going somewhere with him, he’s caused me pain. I get he has a difficult life, and I feel,.. well I feel guilty. I need to know that it’s okay for me to love you, that I’m not betraying him like I did Arthur.” Her words are frantic, desperate, and at some part she’d started crying. “I- I understand if you don’t want to wait for me.” Her voice cracks at the resemblance to when she’s told Arthur the same thing. “But I don’t want to let you go,” she whispers.