Chapter 37 - Denial

Nikolas's POV

Comfort.

I'd gone without it for a lot of years. It was this deep empty hole in my chest searching for anything to fill it; aching as it kept on eating at my inside, day after day searching for satiety but never was able to find it. It kept on getting deeper and deeper till it sucked all the light from inside, leaving me with nothing but darkness.

And that darkness surrounded me, wrapped me inside out. It took parts of me and embedded itself into my core, always there taunting me, mocking me, reminding me I'd lost the right to be loved.

But when this woman looks at me, when those green eyes that's so similar to mine caress my face with so much softness; all of a sudden that darkness starts to fade away and light swoop right in.

When she smiles; Comfort - that foreign feeling - surrounds me.

And it leaves me questioning everything, including myself. Do I deserve it? Hell to the no I don't.

But once again, when she finds out what I did; when she discovers that I turned out