Chapter 4
Drake felt as if something within him, a tiny little ember, had begun to rekindle. The wonder on Tarryn’s face, the hesitancy when he mentioned coming back to his home, the marvel at the place he had lived so long, he had forgotten his own original reaction. Feelings and thoughts that had fallen dormant were beginning to wake up again.
Her face was always so ready to smile, and her eyes had shown a scrolling list of emotions as she took in each sight or conversation. He felt himself amazed that the one person to make him begin to feel again, in his long years of nothing, would be someone with so little of a life left to live. The irony was sad, and painful, but beautiful in the way that the balance of life and death could be.
“So what would you like? I was unsure if alcohol wa
