Nacht 14: When Your Heart's Not Open
13 days before his dream wedding, Joseph Morelli lay awake listening to the sound of his heart bleeding.
He had long forgotten when he'd chosen to become the King of Denial.
Everyday he woke up and kept on ignoring the fact that his happy life was but a big fat lie.
He nodded, chatted, ate and drank.
He interacted with the world around him with an unfaltering charming smile.
The agony he felt deep down inside was not real.
There was no pain or hurt dwelling in the blue eyes he loved so much.
And she never once flinched or shivered or staggered away from him.
It would be alright in the end, time after time he told himself.
She was just being nervous.
It had nothing to do with Ranger.
They would be happily together ever after.
Love would conquer anything.
Anything.
Anything.
Joseph Morelli closed his sad brown eyes and once again ran away from reality.
He was fast asleep when Stephanie pulled the trigger and the lonely gunshot sounded...