This time when I held her, it felt different. Not like before, when I was trying to keep her from slipping away. Now, she was the shore. A place to come back to. And I didn’t know if it was the sea that had given her to me or if she was a fate of my own making. There was a part of me that didn’t care. “I wanted you too. The minute I saw you.” She whispered my own words against my lips—words I’d once thought could be the end of me. Now, I was certain they were.
