He is right. There is no denying it, so I say nothing.
“This world will never offer you those comforts for very long, Aliyana. Sooner or later, your luck will run out, and all you’ll have left is yourself. You should find someone to love while you can and enjoy the beginning of that love because, if there is one thing I can guarantee you, Aliyana, is that love will end as fast as it began.”
I have never met this man before today, and our brief moment is just this moment.
But there is something in the sky at work tonight because when he stands next to me, I can sincerely say that I feel safe. And his words have more truth to it than I will confess to even myself.
I shrug, digesting his all too knowing words.
"I should. But the one I love will be promised to my sister soon. It took me 5
