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“yes, for sure.” Ryan winked at me and mouthed “good luck babes"

I didn’t know what Luca was going to say, but I needed him to be honest with me completely. Was he going to leave me behind? Was I going to be just one of his many girlfriends? Apparently, he had a terrifyingly long list of them that Bianca briefed me on. It was intimidating. It was scary; knowing someone you loved so much could see you in such a little way. I didn’t think I could ever be scared of this. Or you know, maybe I was getting in my head. But, I was sure I needed him. I needed him to come clean with me. And he just did.

“I love you, Eve. I have actually never said this to anyone since Darlene, but I just know. From how you make me smile. To how I feel warm inside whenever you’re around. And when I hear your name, it just warms me inside. I know I have never been the most loving, but I know you feel the same way and I want you to come to DC with me.”

I didn’t know what to say. But I knew how it made me feel. I wanted to tell him how all of me stood at an alert because of him. How I was always so defensive within myself because I always thought I was incapable of love. Until I met him. And then, Ryan screamed.

“Holden has woken up!”

Luca called us for an emergency meeting into his office; Ryan and I. My heart was beating fast. But, considering how he’d entered smiling, I knew it was going to be good news. I just didn’t want it to be the sort of good news that was going to break our relationship you know?

Growing up, I had watched dozens of sitcoms with my mother. There were key factors in most of them. A steamy romance, a group of friends, a dummy and amongst those, there was always a time where the couple everyone rooted for would suddenly break up die to distance. I knew my life wasn’t a sitcom, and neither was it a Shakespearean play. But, there were some days were it just felt like one and I couldn’t deny it. Like, today. Something deep within me wanted to ask Luca if he was going to be leaving to Washington DC. If he got the endorsement. But I didn’t want to seem to in love with him. At least, I knew that was not a good look. So, I paused wherever I was, took and deep breath, because I just knew what I needed to do and I listened to him.

“so, I got the endorsement by the president.” Oh, wow, exactly how I thought. He was going to leave me just when I had started to fall in love with him. Just when I was fully in love with him. I knew he was going to see my full countenance. I let it show on my face so it would pierce him just where I intended to. In that cold, bare heart of his. Then he continued talking. “I can’t even begin to explain how happy I am right now. But I thank both of you. You’ve been with me for the past two years.”So, apparently Ryan was hired around the same time I was. “You’ve seen me in my lowest and You’ve just helped me through really dark moments.”

Ryan raised his glasses, and objected. “Incredibly dark moments.”

“Exactly. But you guys have stuck with me still. I couldn’t be more grateful.”

It was a nice toast, really. His words appealed to the very core of my being. And even though I was just not in the mood because I felt like I was losing him, I still wanted him too.

“Ryan, can I have a moment with Eve, please?”

“yes, for sure.” Ryan winked at me and mouthed “good luck babes"

I didn’t know what Luca was going to say, but I needed him to be honest with me completely. Was he going to leave me behind? Was I going to be just one of his many girlfriends? Apparently, he had a terrifyingly long list of them that Bianca briefed me on. It was intimidating. It was scary; knowing someone you loved so much could see you in such a little way. I didn’t think I could ever be scared of this. Or you know, maybe I was getting in my head. But, I was sure I needed him. I needed him to come clean with me. And he just did.

“I love you, Eve. I have actually never said this to anyone since Darlene, but I just know. From how you make me smile. To how I feel warm inside whenever you’re around. And when I hear your name, it just warms me inside. I know I have never been the most loving, but I know you feel the same way and I want you to come to DC with me.”

I didn’t know what to say. But I knew how it made me feel. I wanted to tell him how all of me stood at an alert because of him. How I was always so defensive within myself because I always thought I was incapable of love. Until I met him. And then, Ryan screamed.

“Holden has woken up!”

ChapterTwenty-Six

When we arrived in the hospital, we did not know what to expect. But the thing is we did. We just did not know how we were going to pull it all off in the end. The hospital was exactly as it was, exactly as it was last time we were here. When we arrived in the hospital, we did not know what to expect. But the thing is we did. We just did not know how we were going to pull it all off in the end. The hospital was exactly as it was, exactly as it was last time we were here.

Everyone is at the hospital when we arrive and by everyone I meant everyone in Luca’s and Holden’s family. Luca had volunteered to drive me and I allowed him. The ride was cool. No one would imagine in their lives that we were a thing, with the way we were sombre all through the drive.

When I reached there, and Holden opened his eyes, he could not remember what I had done wrong.

“Can I talk to Evelyn alone, please?” he said, and the rest of his relatives excused.

“Oh, wow. What is wrong?”

“I think you are a remarkable woman and all through the coma I could really only see you, with all the women I had been with and I just feel like we are rushing things.”

He said that with a grim compassion like he did not know where he was headed but he knew how to get there. I loved every bit of it, because it made my job easier. Here I was thinking I was going to be letting him down easy, but here he was helping me, so I did not have to break his heart. I knew I was not in love with him, and that was not going to change, but deep down, I knew the only way to his heart so that he could heal was to be quiet and listen.

“I think you are a remarkable woman and all through the coma I could really only see you, with all the women I had been with and I just feel like we are rushing things.”

He said that with a grim compassion like he did not know where he was headed but he knew how to get there. I loved every bit of it, because it made my job easier. Here I was thinking I was going to be letting him down easy, but here he was helping me, so I did not have to break his heart. I knew I was not in love with him, and that was not going to change, but deep down, I knew the only way to his heart so that he could heal was to be quiet and listen.

When he was done, I just smiled. He had made my job so much easier, and I knew I was going to be with Luca forever.

ChapterTwenty-Seven

Ididn’t want to go home, and so I had told Luca, and fortunately, neither had he. We were lost in ourselves once again. I knew we were going to Washington DC together, there was nothing that could stop us. But, we were alone yet we were in this, together.

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