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“Yes, I do.” I frown at this. “You shouldn’t have wasted so much time stalking me and should have just married me right away.”
“Yes. I should have, shouldn’t I?” I press my forehead against hers and drink in her presence, while thinking back on all the wonderful things that have happened to us over the years. “I love you, Isla.”
“I love you too, Octavius.”
As a little boy, I made an oath.
To never marry or have children, because the idea of being vulnerable and subjecting myself to more harm was devastating.
And when I got the scar…I never believed anyone could look past it and see the real me, for the real me hid behind the darkness that saved me but also created a sense of loneliness within me.
The little boy didn’t know that the right kind of love could heal certain pain.
Sometimes, life gives us a lot of hardships with no explanations. We have to face those challenges, and most never seem fair.
We lose hope and faith, and are consumed by a pain that poisons our soul and mind.
As a man, I found a woman who made me break this oath, and in turn, she became my everything. She gave me a family that heals my heart and scars every single day.
And if all the cruelness I’d experienced led me to this moment? To my beloved wife and children who adore me and show me that no matter what happens, happiness is possible?
It was worth it, then.
Life has been cruel, but it gave me Isla.
A woman who is and always will be my everything till the day I die.
