Page 110 of Spiralling Skywards: Fading
“Too fucking right there is, and not only that, over there we’ll have my family nearby. A support network. Fuck. You’ve just made the worst day of my life a whole lot better.”
“I couldn’t have made it much worse really, could I?”
I leaned in and kissed her gently on the mouth.
“We’re not gonna keep bringing it up, remember?”
“Sorry.”
“Don’t be sorry, don’t ever be sorry. I promise to not keep bringing shit up, but you’ve gotta promise me that you’ll never do anything like this again. That about killed me today finding you in that room like that.”
She closed her eyes, and twin tears landed on my shirt.
“I’m so sorry it was you. I went there so that it wouldn’t be.” I pulled her closer and kissed the top of her head, just holding her.
I didn’t know or care what the nurses thought when they came in later. I wasn’t leaving, so I turned her back around and slept with my wife held safely in my arms.
