“Stay. I’ll take care of you. I’ll give you the world if you ask for it, stay, let me show you a different side to me that I never show anyone.” I was hoping that she wouldn’t fight me, that I wouldn’t have to result in force because I wasn’t willing to let her go, not now, not ever, I wouldn’t stop until she fell in love with me, until she wanted me the way I wanted her. “Ok.” She said as she tried to get up but she was in so much pain that she fell straight back to the floor before I scooped my arms around her gently and picked her up, placing her on the bed while I wondered why it was so easy for her to give me an ‘ok’? But then she hit me with her words, the words that sunk in further down than I’d liked them to. “I have nowhere else to go so prove me wrong, show me you’re not just

