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“You’re going to be okay, Nora,” he whispers against my temple, his hands loosening. “You’re going to be better than okay.”
Just like I asked, there’s no goodbye. When the song ends, he presses one last kiss against the curve of my jaw. My eyes flutter closed.
When I open them, he’s gone.
But I still feel him everywhere.
I am Heathcliff.


im still crying

His eyes are dark, sheening as he studies me.
My heart feels like a cracked egg, nothing to protect it or hold it in place. “I could stay.”
He looks away. “Nora,” he says quietly, apologetically.
Just like that, the tears are back. Charlie brushes the hair from my damp cheek. “You can’t make this decision for me, or for Libby,” he says, voice thick and rattling.
“Why not?”

im crying man

“Until you got here,” he rasps, “all this place had ever been was a reminder of the ways I was a disappointment, and now you’re here, and—I don’t know. I feel like I’m okay. So if you’re the ‘wrong kind of woman,’ then I’m the wrong kind of man.”

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