Chapter 109

Grief doesn’t knock before entering, it shatters the door, makes a home inside your chest, and feeds on the parts of you that once felt whole. And yet, in that darkness, even the faintest heartbeat becomes a reason to keep going. That’s what he was to me, not just a heartbeat, but my anchor, my second chance… the only piece of light I had left. And now, even that light was flickering.

I have been