Love Bet
I swallowed, my throat tightening.
"I punish myself."
Travis stiffened beside me.
"I work until I collapse. Until my body gives out. Until I can’t feel anything else but exhaustion, because it’s the only way I know how to deal with it."
A single tear slid down my cheek.
"Because I survived, and they didn’t. Because I wasn’t supposed to make it, but I did. And every year, I don’t know how to live with that."
Travis shifted.
And before I could even process what was happening, I was in his lap, my face pressed against his chest, his arms wrapped around me like steel bands.