“Tell me what it was like. When you remembered, I mean.” “It was like…” I feel his hard swallow against my skin, the flutter of his eyelashes as his eyes fall closed. “A flood. When I saw you standing there, the blood coming through your shirt, it just all came flooding back. Like a dam had burst inside my brain. All these different images hit me, one after the other. Memories. Burying my parents, moving here… meeting you. All of it. And in the space of a split-second, it was like I felt my love for you all the way down to the marrow of my bones. Like nothing else mattered but making sure you
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