“You deserve someone who stays because they want to,” he said.
Raquel smiled sadly.
“And how would I know the difference?”
“You can’t know immediately. You have to give people time to show you.”
She looked at him for a long moment.
“And would you give me that time?”
Raúl felt his heart beating faster.
He could have offered a reassuring answer. He could have told her what she wanted to hear.
Instead, he said, “I’d like to get to know you. But I can’t promise you what I haven’t had the chance to discover.”
For Raquel, that answer was worth more than a thousand compliments.
Because for once, a man wasn’t promising her forever simply to gain access to her life.
He was offering her the possibility of something real.
The Beginning of an Unexpected Love
Their relationship developed slowly.
At first, they met for coffee or lunch. Sometimes Raquel invited him to walk through a garden, and sometimes they spent an hour talking on the phone after he finished his work.
