Chapter 10
Without a word I felt Michael slip in behind me. He eased himself into the bed and closed his arms around me. I turned over on the bed to bury my face in his chest and let my tears stain his button down shirt. It smelled like sweat and hard work, but comforted me. I looked up at him in the dim light of the street lamp with a sense of, "why?" Aiming his gaze away from me he replied without my posing a question.
"You did hurt me. But like I said, I will always love you. There is apart of me that would wait forever for you to return my love, a big part. But then there is a small, but very influential part that says that it isn't worth all the heartache. You touched that part briefly, but I wasn't going to let my twelve years of work go to waste."
With almost a puzzled look on his face he made everything go back to the way it was before.
"Oh, come on. Put on your make believe face?"