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He’s the iron-willed guy I saw at Harvard who needed all of me, and I had to wait years before I could give him everything.
“‘I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life.’ I think about that whole passage every time someone says Marrow.”
And I think about how I feel these barest things every day with you. To live life at its most essential level so as to fully live.”
“And Marrow starts with the letter of my name.”
love Lily Calloway, and she’s one of the closest things that I’ve had to a mom. So no, I won’t let this fucking old bat try to drag Lily or Lily’s son down.
“And despite whatever feelings I have about it, my son thinks I’m good, and every day I try to prove him right.”
“But our love is that and better. Our love is headstrong. It never yields, never dies. And when it knocks you backwards, it pulls you upright again.”
“You want to marry the fuck out of me?”
“There’s no one else, Farrow. You’re it. You’re the one, the only one.”
“Dum spiro, spero,” he reads the Cicero quote. His eyes well up again. On a day that rocked us both, he said he loved that quote. It was a quiet moment inside a storm. The memory is as tranquil as the quote itself. While I breathe, I hope.
Light bursts in me, and I spin on him, our hands instantly grip each other in starved yearning. We kiss like we haven’t kissed in eons. Heat blistered and raw, we wrestle in the shower for the lead. And goddamn, we’re both smiling.
Hence, working out with my childhood crush, my bodyguard, my doctor, my fiancé—all Farrow Redford Keene.
And Maximoff—pure, wholehearted Maximoff—can’t even see how Lo and Ryke look even prouder to be next to him.
Dear World, thanks for listening. Love, Maximoff Hale
