Sage Pov
The After. So many stories, so many books floated through my mind, like a whirlwind of words sliding around me. How brave the stories were, people sacrificing themselves for those they loved. Men going off to the army, leaving those they loved behind, and never coming back. All of these stories that told about how brave they were watching the one they love more than life itself ride off into the sunset…but they never talked about the after.
I fell to my knees, my hands still pressed against my chest, and closed my eyes. I could still see his sky blue eyes, the intensity that set my heart on fire piercing through me. The way he stared at me always made me come undone. Before I met him I was clothed and shrouded in every cloth imaginable, but then I met him, and slowly piece by p
