Page 143 of Bound Lives
“What?”
“All the time I couldn’t get Ralph and what happened out of my head, and then the accident… I longed for peace. Silence.”
“Oh?”
“Yeah. But now peace isn’t silence. Now it’s you breathing next to me.”
My throat tightens. “That’s the cheesiest thing you’ve ever said.”
“And probably the truest.”
I trace my fingers down his arm. “I think we finally made it.”
He smiles, the kind of slow, easy smile that belongs to a man who knows what home is now. “No, Tabs. We’re just getting started. I love you, you know?”
I smile. “I know, but thank you for finally saying it. I love you too.”
Outside, the mountains stand tall. Inside, the world feels small and infinite all at once.
Our world.
Henry’s and mine.
Our lives bound together.
Forever.
