SAGE
I sat on the floor next to him, cupping his face and making him look at me.
"Killian," I whispered through tears, "Of course, I want to hear the rest… You don't have to ask."
"You are crying?!" He looked at me, startled and frustrated. "Sage…"
"No one should go through something like this, and I am so sorry," I tried to stop the sob that desperately wanted to escape me. "You… your mum…"
I couldn't express my feelings with words, but he understood what I wanted to say and wiped my tears away with his thumbs. Then he gently kissed my forehead and pulled me into a warm embrace. We stayed like this for a while. Just him and me.
"You are one of the very few people I can share this with," he said, and I looked at him questioningly. Who were these other people? A surge of an unknown f
