stared at the floor.
“With Ruth, I promised myself I would do better. But grief had made me afraid. I kept parts of myself locked away. I was kind, yes. Faithful, yes. But I never fully let her into the places where I was broken. She used to tell me, ‘Nathan, I can live beside your pain, but not outside of your heart.’”
He swallowed hard.
“When she became continue reading …
