Too Late for Roses
"The scar on your brow..."
I murmured, my fingers unconsciously touching the old scar above his eye.
Holden turned me toward him, his drunken eyes filled with starlight.
"And the white roses every Wednesday at three in the afternoon...
"Every time I watched you get upstairs safely, only then did I dare go home."
At some point, the rain outside had grown heavier, pattering against the glass.
I looked at the man in front of me, his eyes red at the corners, so gentle and so deeply in love.