Chapter 28

"Those things scared the shit out of me because when I realized what I was doing and that I'd fallen so ridiculously head-over-heels in love with you...I was that seventeen-year-old kid all over again standing in the hospital waiting room watching my mom wither away while a bunch of fucking machines kept my dad alive..." I croaked out. "Love isn't rational, baby. It's messy and scary and illogical, but it's also amazing and beautiful and so fucking worth it. A wise man once said, 'Tis better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all'," she murmured softly, ghosting her fingers along my jawline as a slow smile pulled at her lips. "Thank God your father is still here, but I'm sure your mother would've never wished away any of the moments she'd had with him away had things turned out differently." I pondered her words for a moment as I reached up and pressed her hand against my skin of my cheek to keep it there. "For the record, I'm still madly, rid