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“Never let someone bigger than you pin you to the ground. The longer you’re pinned, the more strength you give up. Act quickly and violently. Strike their most vulnerable places. Eyes. Nose. Throat. Groin. Give ’em hell, girl.”
I’m sure Nate’s coming up with a plan in his head, one that will end in him rising to the occasion as my knight in shining armor. It looks like he’s about to charge at the burner staggering toward him, but he doesn’t. Instead, Nate runs . . . right out the front door. The man I’ve been with for more than two years, who asked me to marry him two and a half months ago, who told me he loved me just a few minutes ago . . . gone in an instant. Fucking great. I knew he wasn’t cut out for an apocalypse.
home is exactly where I’m headed. Turns out it only took an apocalypse to bring me back.
Cutting him out was my way of punishing my father, because I felt like that was what he had done to me. It was always about preparing for the end of the world, and there was never time to just live in it.
Animosity hurts you, not the person it’s directed at. It’s like poison, but you’re the only one consuming it.”
Loss happens in an instant, but it lasts a lifetime.” He nods in agreement. “A piece of my heart aches. It always does. Sometimes the pain is sharp and debilitating. Other times, it’s a dull twinge I’ve learned to live with.”
He disappears again, a wisp in the air like the last breaths of the men he just encountered. Jesus, he’s like a super-sadistic Batman.
“Sometimes the family you’re born with can’t always be there. But the family you pick up along the way can be.
