Chapter 59

• “What?” Ethan asked warily.
• “Choose carefully, Ethan. Whoever you marry, make sure she’s someone you can trust with your life, someone who will stand by you no matter what. Because once you make that decision, there’s no turning back.”
• Ethan looked at his father, his mind racing with conflicting thoughts.”I will marry Vanessa.” He wanted to argue more, to tell him that he didn’t need love, that he could handle everything on his own. But something in his father’s eyes stopped him. There was a wisdom there, born from years of experience and loss, that Ethan couldn’t ignore.