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“Shhh…” Dad muttered. “Shhh… I got you, Son. I got you.”
Who’s going to hold me? Who has me?
“Why is this happening? Why, Dad, why?”
“I wish I knew, Jagger. I wish I knew.”
“Where is she going to go? You know she hates being alone, Dad,” he sobbed. “She hates it so much.”
She does hate it. Who’s going to protect her now? When she’s really alone.
“Shhh… it’s alright… it’s okay… look, Journey needs you to be strong. Be the strong boy we raised.”
He sucked in breaths and I looked down at Journey who was wide awake, peering up at me. She had no idea what was going on. Her eyes reminding me so much of my mom’s.
“She’s going to a better place, where she won’t be in any pain. Where she still knows who she is and can watch over you,” Dad lied. He didn’t know that.
No one did.
“You promise?” Jagger questioned, but I didn’t hear his response.
Why? Because he knew it was a lie as well.
“I love you, Dad.”
“I love you too, Jagger. You, Jackson, and Journey were all we ever wanted. I swear to you.”
Jagger took a deep, long breath, catching his bearings before I saw him walk down the hall. Leaving Dad alone with what was left of his wife.
His Beauty.
His whole world was in that room.
I blinked and I was once again standing by the door to her room. Witnessing him sitting on the edge of her bed, he grabbed her hand.
And for the first time in my life…
I watched my hero, lose his battle. The war to let her go.
He hunched over, laying his head on top of her chest and broke the fuck down. Crying like a newborn baby. My chest pounded and my throat burned, feeling all his love and devotion for her.
He sucked in air that wasn’t available for the taking.
Tears slid out of my eyes, scared for him.
For her.
For us.
When her hand started lazily rubbing his back, we both suddenly froze. “Beauty?” he rasped, pulling away to look into her eyes.
There was no expression on her face, no recollection in her stare, but still it felt like she might be there with him.
“I’m tiiiirrrreeedd.”
He caressed her pale cheek, “I know, baby, I know.”
“Slllleeeeepppp nooooooowwww.”
