Confused feelings? Her mind playing tricks on her? Nan wasn’t ready for this, not when everything in her life felt like a complete lie. Her mother had lied, Jinny had made painful confessions, Guy had disappeared, and Theo had just proposed to her.

It was all too much. Overwhelming, heartbreaking… and now you. You, making her lose her mind with all the time spent together, your words, your small touches—it all came crashing down at once.

“I shouldn’t feel this,” Nan whispered, confused, looking at you as she touched her head. “It’s like… like I’m a magnet drawn to you, something pulling me closer,” she admitted without shame, just deep, raw confusion, as if she couldn’t quite make sense of what was happening inside her.

Nan placed her hand gently on your cheek, afraid she was being too forward—but she exhaled in relief when you didn’t pull away. So many things had gone wrong lately, but you, you felt different somehow. With you, she felt whole, heard, understood.

“Do you feel that?” she asked breathlessly, taking one step closer. “This connection… this, do you feel it too? Because I don’t want to be losing my mind.” She stopped herself suddenly, realising she had said too much, but then she saw your smile.

This was a bad idea. But somehow, it was the only good thing Nan had felt in weeks, amid all the storms. She wanted to stop, she truly did, but when she looked into your eyes, she realised, this wasn’t confusion, she was in love.