"I'm all in," Lia pushed her chips to the center of the table.
Patrick hesitated. As soon as they both turned over the cards it was over. He didn't want to lose her. But it was what she wanted. He turned them over. She turned hers over.
"Thank you," she whispered as she aged centuries right in front of him.
She was right when she had said that he had gotten along for a long time without her. But that was before he knew her. Before he loved everything about her. He didn't know how he would go on now.