On One Condition (S.I.N. #2)

by K. Bromberg

Grief still raw and real overwhelms me. It’s amazing how so much can change in three months. How life moves on and yet you feel like you’re standing still. How everyone else’s life goes back to normal while some moments I struggle to simply breathe from the grief that consumes me without warning.

But the world moves on even though those of us left behind feel frozen in place.

She and Pop hadn’t been apart for almost sixty years,

And then he died of a broken heart, alone, and without the love of his life by his side.

When I crawl my gaze back up him again, I’m met with an arrogant smirk asking me if I like what I see. Oh, I definitely do.

His words are unexpected and yet so very expected. He’s a man always in control. A man used to his orders being obeyed. A man who always has his eyes on the prize. And I’d be lying if I said it didn’t turn me on.

Asher doesn’t need fixing, Ledger. She just needs someone to hold her hand if she fails, to celebrate her when she succeeds, and to listen when she speaks. There’s so much more said in silence than in a room full of people talking.”