Chapter 73

• Jenny’s POV
• He cupped my face with his hands tenderly and spoke passionately “I want you to believe every single word that comes out of me now. Believe in them, memorize them, and keep them in your heart because I know that it will never make you doubt them or forget them, no matter what happens. I… am…NOT… in love with Melanie anymore. There is no part of me that even thought about her since the day she broke up with me. It’s not because the love that we had meant nothing to me. I loved her so much, I loved her with my whole heart, and that’s exactly why I was able to let her go the moment she ended things. Because my heart was no longer beating for her anymore, not after she left it and turned her back on it so easily. You bringing up Melanie didn’t piss me off because I was still in love with her, I was pissed off because my heart that I gave to her was. It was betrayed and broken and wanted no mention of her at all to stay beating, to stay alive. I thought my heart branded her name on it and was never going to engrave someone else’s name again after what she made it go through and the pain she caused it to feel. But it did. It burned off her name and engraved another, yours, letter by letter, just like I was falling for you day after day. There is still the letter ‘Y’ left. And it won’t engrave it until you tell me exactly where you stand after this. Friends or something more?”
• His tender delicate touch on my cheeks, his heart melting words, his intense affectionate voice, even the way he spoke about his heart carving my name made me want to close my eyes, and bury myself deep inside it, let it cover me, embrace me, warm me, and most of all, what I was afraid of the most, I never ever wanted it to let me go. I wanted to be buried there, and never let anything get me out of it.