AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“Nylah?” I called when I walked into the cathedral. “Where are you?”
“Dex?” she asked, appearing at the end of the long hallway. “What are you doing here?”
I marched to her. “I’m here for you.”
She frowned at me. “Dex…”
“Can you hear me out first?”
She nodded.
“I love you,” I said. “I’ve loved you my whole life.”
“You loved the person I used to be,” she interrupted.
“You’re still that person. We’ve had a whole lifetime together, but I want to keep going. I want to create a new life with you.”
“I don’t have any of my memories,” she said.
“Then we’ll create new ones. Don’t you understand? I’ll take as much time with you as I’m allowed. I want to be with you, to love you and hold you and have you by my side. Not just as someone I care deeply for, a good friend, someone who’s akin to a sister. I want you as my partner, as my wife.”
“What kind of future will that be?”
“It will be a future with you. We don’t have to look ahead and plan so much. We don’t have to panic about what the bigger picture is. All I want is right now. I want a lifetime of ‘right now’ with you.”
Nylah’s eyes welled with tears.
“Dex, I can’t,” she cried.
“Why not?” I asked. “Don’t you feel the same about me?”
Let that not be the reason she didn’t want me. If she didn’t love me, everything I’d thought I’d known my whole life was a lie.
“It’s not that,” she said. “I do feel the same about you. It’s the one thing I’m actually sure of in all the uncertainty. It’s just not that simple.”
“It is,” I argued. “We can get through anything to—”
“I’m pregnant,” she blurted out, cutting me off.
I stared at her, blinking. My body ran cold, and I felt lightheaded.
“What?” I asked.
“I’m pregnant, and the child is yours,” she said, tears rolling over her cheeks. “Do you understand? I’m going to have a baby. It’s not going to be the honeymoon phase where we have nothing to worry about and we can walk into the sunset together.”
A baby? Me and Nylah? I hadn’t ever thought about raising a family. My focus had always been fighting, training, wars.
I could see myself with a family, though. If it was with Nylah, I could see it all—a happy home, children around the table, laughter. Love.
“It’s never been easy, Nylah,” I said. “We’ve never been able to walk into the sunset together, not even when you weren’t pregnant. Your life before this has been as complicated and as dedicated to others as it is now—as it will always be.”
“I don’t remember,” she whispered, and she covered her face with her hands, sobbing.
“Hey.” I gently wrapped my fingers around her thin wrists, pulling her hands carefully away from her face. “I remember, and I know that we’ve always gotten through it together. We’ll do it again because I love you, and you love me. That’s all that matters.”
“Are you sure?”
“I’m sure.”
