Marriage For One

“You’re the only woman I want to go to sleep holding on to and wake up next to, Rose Hawthorne. I will never leave you. I will never forget you.”

She didn’t realize she wouldn’t have had to ask me every day. Once would’ve been enough. I didn’t intend to spend my nights in a different bed than she was in.

“Please tell me this is real,” I whispered. “What I’m starting to feel for you…what I think we have. Please tell me it’s real and I’m not just imagining it.”