"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up."
Neil Gaiman~Third POV
Flashback to a year ago
"Where are you going?" Rory asked; walking into the room and seeing Paris stuffing her bag up with her clothes, her shoes and other things. He was a bit tipsy but not completely drunk and he can still make out a few things.
Paris turns to look at him, "Welcome home, darling, it's three a.m. in the morning." she announced with a sarcastic tone of voice before she returned to arranging her bag, "and I am leaving, I can't stay in this marriage anymore," she zipped up her bag on the bed and turned to him with a pained look. Her eyes were glass
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief... and unspeakable love."Washington Irving~She is Taylor, his Taylor. He declares as he stares at her.His eyes cannot be playing tricks on him, can they? He knew he didn't even have much to drink compared to other days, he just had a few bottles, but if he's seeing things, then that means he's doomed, lost without recovery. He prays that it will not be like one of the many dreams of Taylor he's had to wake up from in the past years, how frustrated he had been then.Longing for her, craving her, but not having her, he'd wake up some night certain what he'd seen was real, but only to be reminded of the reality that it wasn't. Those were his nightmare, his hell and his torture, being genuinely happy only to be thrust ba
"Sometimes you think you've gotten over a person, but when you see him smile you suddenly realize you're just pretending you're over him to ease the pain of knowing that he will never be yours."~UnknownKeenan's POVFour years ago, Four weeks after Reign's birth.Over the weeks that passed by after Reign's birth, I was able to secure admission for Taylor into the University of Rome so she could complete her study and attain a degree in accounting. She was more than happy those times than she'd ever been before, but never in those weeks did she bring up any discussion that Reign was involved in or even talk about her pregnancy or delivery and whenever I had tried bringing her up, she would either change the subject or shut it down completely. I d
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.”Anais Nin~.Keenan's POV“We should go,” Taylor’s voice cuts our discussion short and we both turn to her, but her eyes remains on me, and I can tell she's getting bored out with watching me and Rory exchange greeting, “if we want to have lunch before picking Reign up from school.”Rory brow furrows as he gets a little lost in her words and like always his curiosity gets the best of him and he immediately asks. “Who’s Reign?”Taylor's eyes leave mine and move to him with a neutral expression and she replies. “She’s our daughter.”The blood on Rory's face vanishes and he stares at both of us in utmost surprise and even though my conscience is screaming to not partake in this outrageous act, there is nothing I can do about it now.Taylor is in the right place of telli
“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take.”Anthony Robbins ~.We kissed and I can tell that that's the beginning of the better things to come.When we pull away, her eyes flutter open and her mouth twitches interestingly before she licks her lips, “What was that for again?” she asks with a raised brow.I use my thumb to lightly brush off the strand of hair that falls on her face. “You know what,” I reply, a knowing smirk coming onto my face and staying there.She nods and begins to wiggle against my hold m
"We all have our 'good old days' tucked away inside our hearts, and we return to them in daydreams like cats to favorite armchairs."Brian Carter~She stares at me silently for a while and her face as usual is blank and I begin to wonder if she's ever going to reply to my question and then all of a sudden, her face breaks into a wide smile and she nods "Yes, Yes I will marry you, Rory."I am incredibly happy and I do not know where I should even begin. I haven't felt this much joy in a long time and my whole being jiggle in excitement as she gives me her hand and I slide the ring unto her ring finger before bringing it to my lips and placing a soft and delicate kiss on it. I get up and claim her lips in mine, just like I hope to make her completely for the rest of our lives.I don't know why fate decided to give me an
"When I gaze deep into your mind, I am met with the beauty of a thousand diamonds. As I let that love and beauty flood over my body, I knew that there was nothing that I would ever trade our relationship for."~AnonymousI see who had taken her focus and concentration is none other but Keenan.He's standing, having a casual talk with Dad and looking like he's getting the thrill of his life from whatever their conversation is. Beside him is a beautiful, black woman, whose hands are wrapped around his and I'm not sure if it's from fear or the fact that she's nervous but still, she's not the type of woman he'd go for. She's is wearing an orange mini gown and she seems to be having the time of her life too and once in a while Keenan would look down at her with a smile I know so well. Scratch that, she's his type in every way.Why haven't I seen the lady before?
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief... and unspeakable love."Washington Irving~Her eyes flare angrily, but there is still surprise and awareness that I know the truth about Reign now. "Reign will never be your daughter." she spits out in disgust before going upstairs and the men drag me out."Let me go! Hey! Let me go!" I struggle and I yell at the men who were pulling me out of my house, but they don't listen to me, neither do they stop until I am brought outside the gate. Without uttering a word to me, they return inside and shut the gate to my face.I slam my hand hard on the gate yelling "Taylor!!!" at the top of my voice, and "I know you can hear me, we can talk about this, we need to talk about this please!" but no one se
"The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time."Caroline Myss~Keenan's POVWhen I return to the hotel an hour later, I do not see a trace of Rory in the hotel room after searching everywhere he could have possibly gone to, I know I was crazy to think Rory wasn't going to do something crazy like visit Taylor again.Every time I think that he's changed, he manages to prove to me that he is still the same stubborn and crazy bastard I've known him to be all these years.Why is he so stubborn?! Why can't he just listen to me for once in his goddamn life?He's in love, and desperate, you will do the same if