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July 13 - July 13, 2023
“The difference between him and me is that he left his family. Mine left me.”
“Baby, talk to me.” I shouldn’t have done that, though, because the words that followed will always be as painful as they were in that moment. “You have to stop looking for me,” she said, and then the call went dead.
“That’s Miss Bitch to you. Seniority, asshole.”
“There’s a part of me that still loves you,” I say honestly. “There’s always going to be a part of me that still loves you. But right now, there’s a part of me that wants to hate you, and I’m not sure which is stronger.” She sniffles, wiping away her tears and nodding. “I get that. I do.” I get up from the table and put my fist on it. “Just do me a favor?” “Anything,” she replies, and I know she means that. “Don’t go anywhere until I figure it out.”
“So, that’s her, huh?” she asks. “The girl who made it so you don’t believe in love anymore?” I let myself look at Laiken for a moment before I answer, feeling the way I still crave her like an addiction that never seems to fully go away. “I believe in love,” I say simply. “I just don’t believe in it with anyone but her.”
I hate how the sound of her voice could rock me to sleep at night. I hate how she has the ability to make me feel so many things at once. And I hate how she has me wrapped around her finger, even after everything she’s done.
“I don’t hate you, baby,” I whisper. “I just hate that I wasn’t enough.”
She looks so damn proud of herself, humming to herself like she didn’t just overshare about her sex life with my brother. Imagine if Hayes went up to Cam and said, hey bro, fucked your sister’s mouth today. The hacker wouldn’t be the only body getting dumped tonight, that’s for sure.
She’s still mine. Only ever mine.
“Please, God,” I beg as the tears start to fall. “Please don’t take her from me. Give her back. I just want her back.”
“I love you,” he breathes. “I love you so much.” My heart leaps inside my chest as I hear the words I’ve been aching for. There is nothing in the world better than this. Not a single thing that can top the way he makes me feel. “I love you, too,” I tell him quietly. “There’s never been a day that I haven’t.”
will spend the rest of my life being incomprehensibly in love with her. And if there’s a life after this one, I’ll go to the ends of the earth to find her again, because her soul and mine are two halves of a whole. There’s no me without her.
