Stephen's POV

PRESENT DAY

I saw him drop her off. He seemed like a good man. I knew that he loved her. It was obvious from the way he looked at her. I tried to turn away, to let her live her life, but I couldn't help myself. I wasn't going to look, wasn't going to watch. I had given Charlotte her freedom, her freedom from the hardship of a life spent with me. I decided that my sacrifice, though so painful for me that ironically I felt that I might die of it, was the only way ...