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by
J.L. Seegars
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October 8 - October 10, 2023
My brother is gone, and I can’t cry. I can’t feel anything. I’m numb and the only thing I want is answers. Details. Information.
Mallory and I weren’t good together. We were great. We were a collision of destiny and inevitability. We were fate personified. We were everything.
“You have no idea who I am, and I don’t want to know who you are.”
“I don’t know how to let you go.” The statement is a half whisper, half laugh, but there’s nothing amusing about the way his jaw clenches after he says it. He shakes his head like he hates himself for speaking those words.
“Because from the second I found out Eric was gone, all I wanted to do was hold you long enough to absorb your grief. To take every ounce of the pain you’ve been holding and carry it for you. When I boarded that plane, I knew I had no right to want any of those things, to want anything from you, but I want this, princess. I want to be here for you. Will you let me?”
“And I wanted you. I needed you. I needed you so badly I wished for you, Chris.”
Except it wasn’t because at the last minute, he revealed another layer of himself, and it was driven by ruthless ambition.
Maybe I could accept that the version of him that was mine didn’t want to hurt me.
“The first time I kissed you, everything before you ceased to exist. Your taste, your touch, your smell, eradicated it all. You erased me, turned me into a clean slate, a blank page that only you could fill in. There was nothing before you, Mallory, and if I have my way there will be nothing after you. You are the first woman I’ve ever loved. The only one I’ve ever chased.”
Mallory. I was holding on to you with both hands, clinging to our future with my fucking fingernails, but he was stronger.”
“Logic goes out the window when you’re trying to keep the person you love safe.”
“We’re just a classic case of the right person, wrong time, Chris. And it will always be that way. Your life, the world that you come from, your family, won’t let it go any other way.
“We won’t ever be done, princess. If we’re both here on this Earth, breathing, living, existing, then we are happening. Nothing is ever going to stop me from loving you.”
Open my hands and release her heart, accepting that it will never be mine to hold again.
