The scent allowed me to imagine she was still here, and I lose myself to the illusion for a moment and think of her embracing me. They still smell like her, I thought, as I hold the clothes up to my face and inhale her.
My hands shake as I reach for the drawers and pull out some of her clothing.
My fingers find the edge of Eve’s dresser and I run my hand along it wiping any dust away. I had been trying so hard to be silent that I forgot that breathing was necessary.
I begin to breathe again once I’m inside the room, with a long deep breath. I carefully turn the doorknob and enter the room, sealing the door behind me. The door is closed and I run my hand along it lovingly as if it were Eve. I tip toe down the hallway toward Eve’s room. So after a few months of pacing back and forth, I abandoned the promise I had made him and began to sneak off in the middle of the night. Eventually, Tom begged me to stop, that he couldn’t bear the reminder, so I promised him I would stop, the promise was enough to calm him, but it wasn’t enough to soothe the empty space in my heart. I had made it into a nightly ritual since being given the news that Eve had passed. He had suffered enough and didn’t need to know that his wife would slip out every night to visit their dead daughter’s bedroom. “The true man wants two things: danger and play.įor that reason, he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”Ībandoning my bed sheets I slither out of bed slowly and silently so as not to wake Tom. If there were words to thank her, I would, but since there aren’t I will simply say I love you more. She is my constant reminder that all is possible through sheer will, persistence, and faith. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or byĪny means without written permission of the author. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.Ĭover Artist and Formatting by Dreams2media Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents areĮither the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. This Book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, duplicated, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior written consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
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