Posy proudly offered her father a handmade beaded bracelet she had stayed awake creating.
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Chapter 16
Gareth eventually earned unsupervised time with Posy.
Years, not months.
He never returned to testing bracelets.
Never corrected her gemstone mistakes unless she asked.
Once she called an emerald sapphire deliberately.
He stared.
She stared back.
He laughed.
Progress.
Rosaline never resumed the marriage.
Important.
Gareth changed.
Rosaline still chose a life without him.
Improvement is not a claim on reconciliation.
They became workable parents from distance.
Nothing more.
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He learned to tolerate that too.
Probably hardest lesson of all.
