Secret Service

by Tal Bauer

The weight of the world rests on those shoulders, yet he’s made room for me, too.

I’m living in a splintered reality, in a place where the president talks to me like I’m someone special to him.

“I’m not. I did something unforgivable.” I’m not talking about falling for Brennan. I’m talking about breaking his heart. If I could rewrite the world any way I wanted, I’d rewrite it with him at the center. I’d write us a happy ending that would make fairy tales green with envy. Nothing would ever come between us. He’d know that I love him, that I will always love him.

“What is with you? Why did both of them go crazy over you?” Like the two best men I know thinking I’m worth making space for in their hearts isn’t the biggest honor of my life.

“What matters is now and what we do with today. Tomorrow is a dream. The past is forgotten. Today, I love you.”