That night in the rain, I was drowning. And you were the nearest hand. And you were right. If I'd grabbed you then, I'd never have known. I'd never have known if I loved you or if I just needed you.
She was very close now. So, I let go of the hand on purpose. I let go and I swam to shore by myself and I stood up on the sand and I got my breath back and I built a whole life on that shore without you in it. Her voice dropped. And Nathan, after all of it, after I didn't need you at all anymore, after I could stand up perfectly fine on my own, I still wanted you every day from all the way across the shore.
That's how I know. That's the only way I could have known. Not because you saved me. Because after I saved myself, you were still the person I wanted to walk toward. The conference room was very quiet.
It was the same room, the same corner, the same ceiling he'd been fixing. The day he first saw her fall apart. And now here she was in the doorway of it, put back together whole, standing on her own and choosing freely with nothing. Forcing her hand to walk across the room to him. You told me to wait 6 months.
She said, "It's been 2 and 1/2. I'm early. I know I'm early, but I did the whole thing, Nathan. I did it faster than you thought I could because I'm very good at things I put my mind to. And I couldn't I couldn't wait the extra three and a half months just to prove a point when the thing is already true.
She stopped in front of him. The thing is already true. So I came to find you up a ladder where you said you'd be, Victoria. Nathan's voice was barely there. You sure?
You're really sure? Because once I He stopped. There's no undoing it for me. You understand? I've got a kid.
I don't do this halfway. I can't afford to. She can't afford it. So if you're standing here, if you mean it, I mean it, then I need you to be sure. Not lonely, sure, not grateful, sure, sure, sure," Victoria Harrington looked at Nathan Walker, and she reached up and put her hand flat against his chest over his heart.
And she said in a voice with no boardroom in it at all, no armor, no fear, nothing but the person underneath, "I have never been more sure of anything in my life, and I've built an empire on being sure of things. Her eyes were wet and shining and steady. I don't need you, Nathan. I want you to hear that because it's the most romantic thing I know how to say. I don't need you.