Love Me When I'm Gone Novels & Stories

Her voice… even when angry, it was music to my ears. “I miss you so much, Love…” I murmured drunkenly. “I miss you so much it hurts to let you go… I miss you so much I feel like I’m going to die…” I choked out between heavy breaths, tears spilling down my face. “I love you so much, Love… huhuhu… Jess… forgive me…” And then, everything went dark.

He couldn't even be bothered to argue with me. And our pups, whom I'd painstakingly raised, adored someone else as well—they barely had any affection for me. This feeling of being abandoned was excruciating. Staring at the empty house, I realized it was time for me to move. Since no one cared about me, what was the point of staying? I left the house and went to the courthouse alone to draft a Bond Breaking Agreement. After putting the papers in an envelope and leaving them on the nightstand, I heard noises downstairs.

She never even stopped to think if I would survive. She had already changed. She just refused to admit it. "I used to give in easily," I said quietly, "but that was for the version of you who loved me. Not for the version that chose to hurt me." I paused, then met her eyes. "Janice… I don't love you anymore." The love I once had for her had long since turned into nothing but disappointment and pain. I thought I had let it go, but the wound still ached deep down.

Later, I bought my dad's favorite little cake and went back to the cemetery one more time. I set the cake in front of his grave. I crouched down and gently wiped the dust off his photo. Spring had come. A small patch of grass had grown up beside the headstone. When the wind blew, the blades swayed gently. I looked at my dad's face in the photo and said softly, "Dad... they're all gone now. The people who hurt you. The people who pushed you. They're all gone. I'm going to live well for you from now on."

I used to be a renowned reporter at the height of my career, but I gave it up to become a stay-at-home dad so I could support my wife, Sarah, in her rising career as a news anchor. Things went downhill fast after our daughter was born. Sarah constantly forgot to pick up formula and neglected our baby, and I kept finding evidence of her ongoing affair with her colleague, Mark. When I went back to the station to apply for my old job, Mark went out of his way to humiliate me. Even when our daughter ended up in the emergency room, Mark did everything he could to make things difficult for us. That was the last straw, and I decided to strike back. During a live broadcast, I exposed their affair

Mom raises me and my brother, Cameron Joyner, by herself after she gets a divorce. Cameron was born with congenital asthma and has to take medication every day. Although I'm healthier, Mom treats me better than Cameron. She always says, "You're the apple of my eye, Cassie. I don't want you to feel troubled because of Cam." From the very beginning of my life, I've always been number one in Mom's heart. However, the year I turn 15, Cameron suddenly disappears. Mom completely changes after he goes missing.

I was going to acknowledge its presence, because denying the presence of things did not make them go away, it just made them louder, and I was going to put it in the correct category, which was residual, which was old, which was the completely understandable emotional remnant of a person who had been badly treated and had then been seen and was now watching the seeing end. That was all it was. It was not love. I was certain of that. I had looked at what I felt when Dominic put his hand at the small of my back and what I felt when I heard Eli say Dom is Dom, Dom is the best, and I knew what love looked like in me and this was not it. It was something older. Something that had been there befor

She clarified, before pulling me to kiss again. They sang the song by James Arhur: You say Wont Let Go. I'm so in love with you And I hope you know Darling, your love is more than worth its weight in gold We've come so far, my dear Look how we've grown And I wanna stay with you until we're grey and old Just say you won't let go Just say you won't let go I wanna live with you Even when we're ghosts 'Cause you were always there for me when I needed you most

I had fought cancer for eight years. I had waited for Liam for eight years. My greatest wish had only been to see him one more time. Now I had. That was enough. Goodbye, Liam. I love you.

When you're gone The pieces of my heart are missing you When you're gone The face I came to know is missing too When you're gone The words I need to hear to always get me through the day And make it OK I miss you We were made for each other Out here forever I know we were, yeah, yeah All I ever wanted was for you to know Everything I do, I give my heart and soul I can hardly breathe, I need to feel you here with me, yeah When you're gone The pieces of my heart are missing you When you're gone