For three years, Vanessa had told me that she was only trying to protect me.

She had told me Ethan wasn’t ambitious enough.
That he didn’t have enough money.
That I was settling.
That Julian was the kind of man I should have married.
And now she was terrified of a letter from Julian.
I continued reading.
If you’re reading this, Mark finally did what I asked him to do.
My eyes lifted.