“What
about you?” Matthew asked her. “Are you ready to call the former
chauffeur your brother-in-law?”
“I don’t
know. I’m still getting used to it as well,” Mary admitted. “I
know as long as she’s happy I should be happy, but it’s just so hard
to believe that they love each other when I never saw it happening in
front of me.”
Matthew
turned to look at Mary, who was still watching the hull of the ship
cut through the sea. “Just because you didn’t see it doesn’t mean
it didn’t happen, or that it isn’t genuine. Sybil has left everything
she’s ever known to live in an entirely different world. I doubt
she’d do it if her love for Tom wasn’t strong enough.”
“I
don’t think I could give up the life I knew, even for someone I
loved,” Mary said. “Sybil’s brave enough to do that, but I know
I’m not.”
“How do you
know you couldn’t?” Matthew asked.
“I just …”
Mary sighed, searching for the right words. “I just don’t think I
could love someone that much.”
Read now on FF.net! Part of this month’s Rock the Wedding AU! M/M & S/T
Despite the fast paced nature of the hospital, Sybil actually felt sedentary in many aspects of her life. She was always waiting – first for graduation, then for residency admission and currently for it all too somehow fall apart.
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