When the Lights Go Out, the Vows Get Tested in the Dark

in my face. For a second, something softened.

Then she whispered, “Don’t leave me.”

The words landed inside my chest like a stone.

“I won’t,” I promised, and I meant it with every ruined piece of my body.

I got her back inside, wrapped her in a blanket, rubbed her feet until the color returned.

But the damage was done.

Because ten minutes later, a cruiser continue reading …