“What is it?” I ask. “I don’t understand…What do you want out of all this? What could you possibly—” “I want you!” His voice booms, louder than I’ve ever heard it. All the blood rushes from my head. The room tilts, everything going sideways. “I want you to stay. I want you to be with me. I want to live out everything we promised to each other. Those vows, they meant something to me, Meena. They still mean something to me. What we had…what we have…is real.”
