Alone with You

by Aly Martinez

“I love you, True. But the things you need to do have to be done for you and not just to keep me.”

“So this fucker just got away with taking advantage of you? Treating his woman like a piece of meat? That woman being his own Goddamn wife? That woman being the love of my fucking life?”

Abuse was abuse,

That’s all I’ve ever wanted from you, True. Effort. Just a little bit of effort.”

Yeah. I wanted this. A life in reality. A life with her.

“I lost myself, Gwen. I won’t make that mistake again. There is nothing—and I mean nothing—I won’t do to hold onto you. I want this with you. I need this with you. I will never let anything or anyone—including myself—take you away from me again.”

However, my world didn’t go dark. I wasn’t gone. Gwen wasn’t gone.

“You were her father. On the good days, the bad days, and every single one in between, you were always her hero.”

“Welcome to the present, True.”