All this time, he’s been showing me. Showing me he’s not the same. That he’s real, he feels things for me, wants to try something with me. That he wants me. And all this time, through the dozens of times he’s told and showed me, I’ve ignored it. Instead, so stuck in the trap of trying to protect myself, I couldn’t see there was a man in front of me willing to slay dragons for me, with me. Willing to do what it took to keep my heart safe and sound, to give me all of my girlish daydreams of family and friends and love. And I threw it away. But he couldn’t even throw away a silly fortune from a
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