"You know…I don’t think I really care," Sara answered, surprising herself with her own honesty as she realized she really didn’t care where she was going, so long as Simon was going to be there too. Something had happened to her when that dam of emotion had burst inside her earlier and she had cried in his arms.

Somehow—miraculously—she had been released from all past hurts and disappointments, leaving her emotions as light and free as they had been when she was a university student. ...