Chapter 180 Prayed

• I placed my hand on his already pale one and held it. It filled my heart with warmth, and tears started rolling down my cheeks again. I thought of every touch, every feeling, every hold, every kiss he had ever given and shut my eyes tight. The beeping sound grew in my ears, and so did the sound of his heartbeat.
• “I won’t leave,” I asserted boldly. He was so scared that I might leave him, probably just the same way Samantha did. She had known that he had a disease, that was why she refused to marry him and had left him alone for years, never truly loving him, even after her return. He had his mother and cousin, but he was alone, fighting a silent battle of life and death with no one to truly comfort him, not even me. I remained in the dark because he was scared I would be like Samantha, scared that I would be like any other person. Who knew how many had left him the moment they found out? The tears against my eyes did not stop, and the pain in my heart also didn’t. I thought of what he had gone through, the discussion I had with Mom Leona concerning his biological father and the father who never showed him love. Was it because he also knew that he was dying? How could he be so cruel?
• “I won’t leave you,” I repeated as if he could hear me. I needed to assure him that it was not going to happen.