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“Welcome home,” I whispered.
Okay I’m literally crying 🥹
The world wasn’t black and white, no matter how much I wished it were. And sometimes, we found our happiness in the shades of gray.
“You don’t like dessert.” My voice had gone to smoke, as insubstantial as the remnants of my resistance. Christian’s slow, answering smile throbbed in my blood. “I changed my mind.”
And as I swayed to the music in Christian’s arms, listened to the comforting rumble of his voice and the familiar warmth of my friends’ laughter, I felt something that’d eluded me for so much of my life. Happiness, in its purest and most complete form.
He wrapped his arms around my waist while I buried my face in his chest and breathed in the rich, familiar scent of him. It was the scent of love and comfort and safety. My favorite smell in the entire world.
I want this kind of love 😭
Even though she hadn’t remembered me in the last years of her life, a part of me wondered whether she’d been waiting for me to find my home before she moved on.
The baby hadn’t even been born, and I already wanted to guard them with my life. A boy or a girl, it didn’t matter. All that mattered was that they were ours.
Once upon a time, I hadn’t believed in love. Now, I realized that love was the last piece that’d been missing in the puzzle of my life. With it, I was finally whole.
