Still reaching for each other.
Only this time…
the truth had finally caught up to us.
10
BLAZE
Inever stopped.
The words echoed through me like a detonation.
Sixteen years.
Sixteen years of anger.
Of grief.
Of trying to bury her.
Of convincing myself she chose another life.
Gone.
Not gone.
Worse.
Because now I knew the truth.
She had still loved me, too.
The pain of it nearly split me open where I sat.
Felicity now stood near the window crying silently, one hand covering her mouth like she was trying to hold herself together by force.
And suddenly all I could think was:
She cried over me too.
Jesus Christ.
I pushed a hand through my hair roughly and stood before I even realized I’d moved.
Felicity looked up immediately.
Tears shining in those eyes I’d spent half my damn life trying to forget.
“Hersh…”
Her voice cracked softly on my name.
That was it.
That was the thing that finally broke whatever restraint I had left.
I crossed the room.
