Bound By A Borrowed Heart
Then he releases the doorframe, steps back into the hallway, and says, in a voice that's barely holding together: "Goodnight, Gianna."
He walks away and his footsteps are uneven, they’re not the measured patrol pace but faster and less controlled. The footsteps of a man who is leaving before he does something he can't take back.
I drop the paintbrush and It clatters on the hardwood and rolls under the easel and I don't pick it up because my legs are shaking and my hands are shaking and the heart is pounding so hard the scar on my chest aches.
I look at the painting. The tangled forms, the heat, the bodies-that-aren't-bodies wrapped around each other in flames that could be passion or destruc