As the years passed, Fredrick and Elisabeth remained close, though their lives took them in different directions. Fredrick continued to manage the café, a pillar of the Silverbridge community, while Elisabeth made a new life for herself in the south, with her son and her partner.
They had both found their fated endings, not in the way they had once imagined, but in a way that was perhaps even better. Their lives had been filled with heartache and betrayal, but in the end, they had both found the happiness they deserved.
And in that, there was peace.