NATALIE
“I will always be here for you.”
That’s what my husband had promised to me twenty six years ago and he had kept his promise all these years. No matter what I have been through and what the circumstances were, he had always been there for me. He had fought life and faith to get to me. Now every day of my life, I spent being what he needs. His calm. His love. His wife. And everything that he desired.
I pulled the bed covers off and sprinkled the rose petals, remembering the first time he had brought me into this house to make this our home. And then our sons were here to fill it with their beautiful but bruised hearts, and love had always surrounded me since. But still, my heart ached when I thought about that one person who could not be saved, who had always been the other half
