Ashley
I could feel his warm breath falling on my neck as he whispered in my hair. “I don't want this moment to pass.”
His hands tightened on my body as he didn't want me to let go. Slowly I wrapped my hands around him in a deadly grip and buried my face in his chest.
"I'm sorry," I whispered into his shirt. "For everything. For hiding about the miscarriage, for all the times I pushed you away, for every moment I made you feel bitter..." I squeezed my eyes shut. "Can we just forget it? All of it? Everything painful and complicated and awful? Can we just... let it go?"
His arms began to rub my back. "Yes," he said without hesitation. "God, yes. I don't want to hold onto any of that, Ash. I never want to."
I pulled back just enough to look up at him, and found him already staring down a
