You're mine, brother.
Even conjured up from whatever chemicals were currently eating through my brain, he was still the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen in my life.
And I was sitting here like this — wrecked, hollow, barely holding myself together — while he looked like that.
“I missed you,” I said, the words coming out quieter than I intended. “I don’t think I’ve ever missed anything the way I miss you, Levi. You’re taking me apart from the inside and you’re not even in the room.” I exhaled hard. “I can’t come to you. You’d hate me more if I broke my promise.”
“What promise?”