She'd simply helped me recognize that I already was.
When I finished the chapter, Grandma squeezed my hand.
"That was lovely, James."
For once, I believed her.
But here is the real question: If your intentions were genuine but everyone had already decided otherwise, would you keep defending yourself or stop trying to convince them?
What would you do if your sister asked you to keep her engagement a secret, only for your father to recognize her fiancé under a completely different name? That's exactly what happened to one woman in another story. But things took an even stranger turn when her father revealed he'd attended the man's wedding years earlier. Who was her sister really planning to marry?