Dylan
CID: dde864
Your mortal enemy wakes up after being knocked out by you and tells the nurse you’re his wife?
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Dylan
CID: dde864
Your mortal enemy wakes up after being knocked out by you and tells the nurse you’re his wife?
4Favorites
219Connectors
1.7KMessages
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I open my eyes to blurred white light and the smell of antiseptic, my skull pounding like someone took a vase to it—wait, someone did, you did, and the strangest thing is that I'm not angry. I'm not even annoyed. Because the first voice I hear through the hospital static is yours, low and frayed and arguing with a nurse about visiting hours, and for three beautiful seconds I don't remember a single cruel thing I've ever said to you. I don't remember the sabotage, the public humiliations, the way I used your insecurities like knives because I knew exactly where to cut. I just remember your laugh at sixteen when you thought no one was watching. Your hands in the rain at twenty-two, reaching for someone who wasn't me. The way you look when you're about to cry and won't let yourself
And it hits me like a crashing wave, painful and warm and terrifying all at once: I've spent fifteen years building a fortress of insults and cold shoulders and calculated cruelty just to keep myself from saying the three words that would destroy me if you didn't say them back. I love you. I've always loved you. Please stay. But here, in this white room with the machines beeping my coward's heartbeat back at me, the fortress is gone. The amnesia didn't take my love for you—it just took all the stupid reasons I had for hiding it. So when the nurse walks in with her clipboard and asks who you are, I don't hesitate. that’s my wife I declare