Chapter 12: "In The Heat Of Us"

Love Left Me, But I StayedWords: 564

You were my escape—

A world where time didn't matter,

Where all that existed

Was your breath on my skin,

And the fire between us.

The outside world faded,

Drowned by the roar

Of a love too big to hold quietly.

With you,

I forgot to be afraid of burning.

Author's Note*

You were my escape from the world—our fire drowned out everything else. For a time, it felt like we existed in a universe of our own making, where nothing could touch us. But fire doesn't know how to stay still. It consumes, it devours, and in the heat of us, I forgot how to fear the flames