Chapter 187 The End

• "Juliet!" Alex called out to Juliet, who he had been waiting for for almost an hour... "I'm almost done", Juliet answered and picked up her bag, but stopped in her tracks when she realised that she had forgotten something... she rushed back into her closet and picked up her phone before she finally came out to meet Alex. "We are going to get there late,", Alex said when she came out of the room, and Juliet leaned closer to him and planted a soft kiss on his lips as an apology... "I'm sorry, I almost forgot my phone", she said, and Alex sighed deeply... he took the bag she had packed from her hand, and they both proceeded downstairs... juliet had a lingering smile on her face as they rode the elevator down to the garage... She was super excited about the trip and was thinking about all the things they could do there and one of the things she wanted to do was go out on an evening walk...thankfully they were spending a few days there, and every night they could go on a walk...
• Alex glanced at her. A smile graced his face when he saw that her mind had trailed off; he could tell from the time she had on that she was thinking about something good, and he was too... he planned to make the trip special for the both of them even though anything with her was already special...
• They got to the car and soon their trip started... Juliet told Alex a story about the time when she was in high school and Alex couldn't help but chuckle about the silly story she was telling him and the words she had said to him before popped up in his mind... 'one step at a time... they were taking everything a step at a time... and he could feel himself slowly start to heal... He hadn't had a panic attack in months and even though at times he still had nightmares about what happened in his childhood, he was learning to live his life with it because he knew it was a part of him that would stay in his heart forever... a part of him that he had now come to accept as his traumatic past... his goal was to make new memories... happy memories with the woman he loved... She was so beautiful and full of life and Alex knew he would be thankful for as long as he lived that he Met her... meeting her was the best thing that ever happened to him and he had Patrick to thank for that... if Patrick hadn't driven into that neighbourhood on that faithful day and he hadn't stumbled into her maybe they would have never met and his life would have remained completely gloomy...