“I did. I swear. After battling my brain in a million different ways, but you’d already gone. You’re not an easy woman to find when you decide to disappear, and nothing and no one could locate you for dust… I promise I looked, baby, everywhere. I couldn’t find you. I didn’t stop looking for you in all those months. I made myself insane with it.”

I don’t know what to say, my skin tingling from what he says. Afraid to let his words sink in, afraid to believe in anything. ...