Ezra's POV
~Warning: Contains scenes of s****l violence~
“Just the two of us,” I told Delilah, pressing my forehead to hers ever so gently. I’d fallen in love with a pretty girl with a streak of paint along her cheek. Instinctively, I wiped it off with my sleeve while waiting for the evening train in front of the setting sun. That’s how two dreaming strangers found true love in one another. “We’ll make a family of our own.”
Everything about her from her emerald eyes to the way her light brown curls caressed her dimples when she smiled told me we were doing the right thing. Delilah was perfect. She’d become my heart at the speed of light, each day growing larger and larger with love for her.
Screw our parents.
They didn’t understand how much we completed one another.
My father conti
