Always Only You by Chloe Liese (z-lib.org).epub

“So listen,” Willa says over the line. “Word is Aiden showed up at the Love
Shack—”
“I’m sorry, what?”
“The Love Shack,” she says simply. “Trust me. Once you get to the A-frame,
it will all be very clear.”
“I’ll be lucky if Ren doesn’t spin me around in the road and tell me to go
right back where I came from.”
Willa snort-laughs. “Please. He’s going to lose his shit with happiness when
he sees you. The person he’s going to send packing is Aiden.”
“Just don’t pull away as soon as you drop me off.”
“Of course, I won’t,” she says. “But I’m telling you, you have nothing to
worry about—”
The flight attendant announces early boarding over the speaker, cutting
through our conversation. Signing off with Willa, I stand and grin at the grannies
who eyeball my cane and mutter “faker,” loud and clear.
Even when your illness isn’t invisible, people can still be blind to it. But I’m
done being embarrassed or humiliated or defensive. I’m being me. Because
that’s enough. And for the first time in too many years, I know that I’m loved for
exactly who I am. The person who reminded me of that waits for me in a little
cabin in the woods. I can only hope he’ll forgive and love me still.