Blessed & Broken

Chapter 22

I drove. I drove all over town just to think and get my mind straight. Ian had come back. He said that it was all done.

This should have been the happiest of reunions, and for a very short time, it was. In those few precious moments that Ian and I shared, I felt as if my whole heart had healed.

But seeing Ian so vulnerable tonight, made the cracks in my heart reappear. I should have been stronger than that to protect him. Luna was right. Ian wasn’t made to be in our world.

I kept running questions over and over through my mind. “What happened to the prayer that I prayed to keep Ian from coming back? Wasn’t it heard?”

“Maybe we could run away together and no one would ever find us. We could go live our lives together, the way we had planned.”, I thought. It wouldn’t work though. I would