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“But love doesn’t hurt. Love doesn’t crash you into the earth. Love doesn’t bring fear, or pain, or uncertainty.” “Baby love. Love doesn’t protect you from those things. Love only heals from the damage. Love ensures you don’t go to battle alone. But with great love comes notable risk. With the fall. With the glide. Comes the impact.” I close my eyes in defeat. Hold onto you because you are all I have to hold onto. It’s only us on this parachute. Then I prepare. I brace for what’s to come. Succumb to my destiny. I accept the memory. Because in the end, I would have rather gone up on that
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“Tahli doesn’t want me to fight for her. She wants to marry the perfect nigga that never fucks up–” “I didn’t give her to the perfect nigga!” Robert surprised him by bellowing, commanding Vin’s gawk. “I gave her to you. So, if you’re the man that you said you were...the man that I think you are... you’ll fight for her.” That rendered Vin speechless. “If- No, when…she makes it through this. You better do just that.”
“Do what?” Vin dared for clarity, and Robert met his glower. “Fucking fight for her, Dalvin.”
“But that’s the thing about lies, Dalvin. Once they come out, they poison the truth.
All of our memories are tainted. I’ll never believe any of them. I’ll never trust my own fucking memories. I’ll never trust you.”
“So, yeah…I’m fucking with it. I love you, baby. But I owe it to myself to love me more. Don’t think that doesn’t kill me to say, Vin, because of course what the fuck am I gonna do without you?”
“It kills me to see you broken. But I want you to love me enough to let me go, baby.” Vin looked like he had stopped breathing. “I want off the parachute.”
Damn
“I ruined your life, Tahli.” Her wide, wet eyes flared on the table. “I knew I ruined it 15 years ago, and I’ve been trying to make up for it ever since. For a while, I thought I did. But in the end…I ruined your life, baby love.” He repeated. “I’m sorry about that.”
I can’t believe we’re here, Tahli. I can’t believe after all these years of us building a life together, it’s all over. I understand it’s at my doing. It still doesn’t make it cut any less. I’m not sure how I’ll move on without you. But I guess it’s something I’ll have to figure out. Because if you’re reading this, it means I finally accepted that you really want this. Regardless of what I say. Regardless of what I feel. Of what I try to promise. You don’t believe that I can make you happy anymore. I’ve hurt you beyond the capacity of repair. So, I have to let you attempt to find your deserved
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Take him back sis omg
“Sometimes the people we think we need so much and that we think we can’t live without, they end up leaving us. And guess what? We live anyway.”
‘Grief is the price we pay for love’. Sometimes you have to let the pain run its course.”
“Alerted?” Drew quizzed, staring calmly at it, but still breathing heavily. “Yes. From the unsuccessful entry attempts,” the bellhop replied. Drew nodded. Tahli glanced to be sure he was put away, only to spot the stains from her cum all over his pants. “Also…the cameras,” the bellhop muttered like he was doing them a favor with the warning, then he hurried off.
Haha
you love Tahli, truly love Tahli…you have to love her past the capacity of your possession.
You have to love her enough to want her happy; however she finds that happiness. She’s a smart woman. She’ll know if you love her enough for that.”
“So, is she really just a friend?” Tahli changed it back. Something about him comparing Bianca to Drew was a thorn. Vin tilted his cup to his lips again. “Ask me what you really wanna know,” he replied. “And what do I really wanna know?” “Am I fucking her?” Tahli scoffed. Rolled her eyes before looking into his. Swallowed stubborn saliva. “Are you?”
This i dont want you but no one can have you is lame
“You do not have to thank me for having standards, Bianca.” Tahli was confused. Bianca nodded gently. “Right. But I do have to thank your standards for letting me have him.” Bianca walked off after, taking Tahli’s unspoken words with her.
And i oop
How anybody from any race will never forget a love from a black woman if they had the privilege to receive it. They protect you. Genuinely love you with no expectations.
His heart swelled when he realized it was Milo who had rushed to hug him goodbye.
Aww
to himself. “I lost more than I ever should’ve gambled.”
“I mean, they thought they were being quiet, but it was just screaming and moaning and screaming and moaning and–”
Gagged
“Tahli, baby…I really believe you feel that. And maybe you’re right…maybe you won’t be with Dalvin again.” Drew shrugged, glassy-eyed. “But I can’t be with you.”
Yes drew!!
“Maybe because there is no right, my love. Only what you can live with. Or can’t live without.”
Do you feel like you allow room for failure?” “Who wants to allow room for failure?” “Someone who desires longevity. Who can sustain without failing, Tahli?
Her teary eyes nestled on his. A sad smile curved those lips he had sworn off but gotten back somehow. “More than I even imagined love existing. Like the fucking endless realm of infinite space where no one has ever seen. I love you past that shit, Tahli. And I think…” Vin wet his lips, tasting the bitterness of his thoughts before they turned into words. “Fuck,” he blew out, a cold sweat chilling his forehead. “I think…that this is really over.”
Im crying omg
“I used to pride myself on your happiness, Tahli. I judged myself as a man based on how big your smile was. But that was deception. Because I was holding back the full truth from you. So, I wasn’t a good man. I was mimicking one. Baby love, I fear that you would’ve been so much more if you hadn’t met me. But I latched myself to you anyway. And I let you pull me up as far into the clouds as you could. But you were always supposed to go higher.”
“Thank you for the years, Tahli. The babies. The memories. Like you said once, sometimes we don’t get to keep the loves of our lives, but it doesn’t diminish shit. Tahli, I’ve learned from you. I’ve grown from you. I’m lucky enough to have you as the amazing mother to my children. Always bonded with you. Forever, baby love. Our story is etched in fucking time. And that clown wasn’t the guy for you, but neither am I. Whatever’s in store for you should make you light up every day. That big, beautiful smile should never leave your face. Not even once,”
“Pain is a scary son of a bitch, Tahli. People do all kinds of shit to escape the burn. But you can’t run from that motherfucker. You gotta sit in it. Then it starts to dissipate.
Never let anyone tie you down, never give up on your dreams. Never lose yourself. She had never imagined there was sacrifice in Cree’s selfishness.
“Figured I should wait until the truck stopped rocking before I interrupted. You guys are so gross.”
Lol she stay blowing up their spot
to have a shot at forever. But I wasn’t going anywhere. You were gonna go and I was gonna stand right there until you found your way back.”
“And I know that you think I can’t be happy if I’m with you. Because I thought that, too. That I’d look at you and be reminded of what you did. But you not being there reminds me, too.” Tahli sniveled. “Taking you out of the equation doesn’t help me, Vin. Your absence is too big. You’re not there when I sleep…or when I eat. When I cry…”
“I’m not. But I can be honest with myself that our foundation was not as perfect as I imagined. I have work to do, too. You’re still growing and I’m still growing, but I want to do this shit together. Because I love you now, and I’ll love you later. The next version of you, I’ll love his ass, too.” Vin swallowed that down.
Fighting against how much I still love you has been like swimming against the fucking current. I’ve been swimming nonstop for two years, and baby, I’m exhausted.”
“Baby, we are so much alike,” she confessed, shaking her head. “We both handled our trauma in different ways…but ultimately, we never knew how to receive love fully. Me? I created expectations for love, knowing many wouldn’t be able to live up to them. Eventually, someone would make a mistake, and I’d never have to worry about being abandoned. Because I would do the abandoning. “And you…you never felt you deserved the life you had. So, you gambled with it, then built a web of lies to hold onto it, terrified of me abandoning you. But we’re not there anymore. We’re here. With a power in knowing
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“Vin, there’s no hopes to get up. Because I’m here. I want to do the work. Do you?”
