A/N: I am terribly sorry for my delay in updating, real life intruded, but I have a couple of chapters here to make up for it and am halfway through a third which will (hopefully) be up soon. Once again, thanks for all the reviews and for reading! Hope you enjoy :)
Pam watched Eric leave from behind the curtain in her room. If he felt her eyes on him he showed no sign of it, but judging from the set of his shoulders she'd guess that he was too worked up to notice anything.
Except Sookie, a voice at the back of her mind whispered bitterly.
She told that voice to shut up as she went to sit on the edge of her bed, the letter Ginger had given her in her hands.
Last night she'd had every intention of burning it, had even made the fire to do so, but in the end she hadn't been able to bring herself destroy it.
Not that she'd been able to read it either.
At this point she wasn't sure what she wanted the letter say: did she want him to beg for her forgiveness? To renounce Sookie? To renounce her?
She closed her eyes briefly to calm her thoughts, reminding herself of who and what she was: she would not be afraid of a letter.
Seizing the moment Pam ripped open the envelope.
Regardless of her fears about its contents, if she had been expecting a long missive she was to be disappointed. Written in Eric's bold, yet elegant hand was only one sentence: If you remember nothing else about me, remember this: of all the women I have known, you are the only one I chose to spend eternity with.
Not exactly the reassurance she had been craving, but his words did help to soothe some of her wounded feelings.
Some, but not all: he still had some explaining to do.