-Anastasia-
Maybe I wasn’t thinking clearly. I was quite tired, but suddenly I couldn’t hide these vulnerable feelings that surged forward, urging me to ask a very important question. However, as I looked up at Gabriel, I could see something in his eyes that surprised me. It was such a deep love, it made me gasp.
“Nothing will stop me from loving you,” he assured me.
“Even if I’m broken?” I inquired.
“You’re not broken,” he promised.
“But—”
“No, no more talk about being defective or wrong. You did what you did to survive. That impresses me, little one, and I believe with time, once you feel more secure and safe, once your future is more stable, then you might bring out those sides of yourself you have kept hidden away,” he suggested.
“You think they will come back?”
“I don’t think
