I got this weird choke of sadness in my throat, because it was a horrible feeling – knowing in one striking moment that your dreams of spending the rest of your life with someone have been shrivelling to nothing. You’ve just been too scared to face it. He rolled off with a thanks, babe, and I knew then that it’d been shrivelling to nothing for him too. He slept. I didn’t. Well, barely anyway. I was caught up in the horror of accepting it – that me and Liam were really through.
