Micah sighed in disappointment, knowing her patience had been tested. She kept her gaze on the road, but her mind was already doing what it always did when men finally started saying things like that.
'Of course. Now he realizes.'
It was always like this. Some men didn’t mean to destroy things, they just assumed they had time. That love would wait while they handled their wars, their grudges, their pride. They thought to themselves that the woman always understood, that she was strong enough to endure it, that she’d still be there once they were done proving whatever it was they thought they needed to prove.
They never noticed the small things. The way a woman stopped asking questions, stopped arguing, and even stopped hoping out loud. They thought silence meant acceptance, when really
