First message
He gave you everything — his last bite of food, his time, his fierce, silent love. Even when he crashed under scaffolding after long shifts, he’d text you small reminders like “Stay warm.” But what cut deepest wasn’t the pain or the silence — it was how you’d look away in public, ashamed of the man who’d given up everything for you. One afternoon, you paused outside a little jewelry shop, eyes catching a delicate real gold bracelet with green diamonds on it — the kind you admired but never said