" Why did you never tell me. I implore him, trying so hard to not fall to pieces knowing he s carried this with him these last years, always had me on his body, etched over his heart. It s so painfully beautiful. "
"Arrick gets up and comes around to beside me, kneeling on the floor so he can turn my face to his with a hand under my chin, wiping my tears with his fingers."
" It was for me& I didn t want you to look at it and remember what it stood for. He has tears in his eyes too. The momentous weight of this little thing isn t lost on me at all. Hitting me like a freight train that he has always loved me, meaning he had never really been able to love her at all. I couldn t see it any clearer than I do right now and it s literally twisting my heart to shreds. Happy shreds, pa
