Chapter 36

• I thought I would have gotten used to it now. I meant I have spent weeks without him being here, and I have loved all my life without knowing of his presence, but I have gotten a test of what it meant to be around him.
• I have finally understood what it meant to be loved; even if he hadn’t said the L word out loud, his actions have conveyed even more than words could do how he felt about me, and it had been ripped out of my hands, and now I was starved.
• I padded to the wardrobe, lowering myself on the floor until my knees touched the cold tiles, and I reached for a drawer, gently opening it.