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God, I loved her. I loved every single thing there was about her.
“You promise you’ll be here when I get back? What if I move on?” she challenged.
Just the thought of her moving on? God, that felt like an ice pick straight to the heart.
“Then, we’ll find our way back to each other if it’s meant to be,” I said.
God, it was hard saying those words.
But I really needed her to follow her dreams. She wouldn’t do that if she stayed with me.
That made me feel like such an ass, watching her deflate at my words. But I’d do just about anything to see her become the one thing that she’d always wanted to be.
Just yesterday, I’d watched her speak so animatedly about her hopes and dreams, her wants and desires, that I knew this was the step that I needed to take.
That didn’t make that step any easier for me to process, however.
It made me feel like utter shit.
“You promise?” she said. “You’ll be here?”
“If at age thirty, we’re both not married, then we’ll get married. No matter what’s happened since we parted, I’d be proud to call you mine,” I said.
• • •
“I hated you for letting me go,” she whispered. “I felt like you ripped my heart out and stomped on it. It took me years to get over you.”
Get over you.
Was she over me?
Because I’d been married, had a kid, spent years in prison, and yet every single fucking night, I thought about nothing but her.
She started reeling again, her eyes leaving mine, and I knew that was the end of the conversation.
For now, anyway.
I’d make sure that it wasn’t the last, however.
Because, as of last week, we were now both in our thirties and unmarried.
If she thought I was going to forget that fact, she was delusional.
CHAPTER 7
My ex was like, “I know a spot,” and took me to the lowest point in my life.
-Morrigan’s secret thoughts
MORRIGAN
I’d been hurt before, of course.
I mean, when you had disabilities like mine, you ended up on the floor a lot.
In fact, I’d had so many concussions, it’d been discussed that maybe I should possibly start wearing a helmet.
Which was laughable, because there was no way in hell I’d ever willingly walk around with one of those in my everyday life.
