One More Thing by Lilliana Anderson

Author:Lilliana Anderson [Anderson, Lilliana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LA Romance

“I want you to live, sweetheart,” Tyler said, lying beside me on the bed. I knew this was a dream and felt the tug against my heart from knowing he wasn’t real. I reached out and ran my hand down the side of his handsome face, focusing on the feel of his features beneath my fingertips. I didn’t want to forget a single line.

“Did you always look like this?” I asked him, touching his nose, his full lips. “It’s been so long. Have I changed you in my memory?”

He chuckled. “I don’t know. You’re the one creating this version of me. I’m not even really here.”

I sighed in response, shifting my body closer. His arms wrapped around me. “I know that. But it feels like you’re here.”

“That’s because you want it so much. But I think you need to let me go.”

“I don’t know how to do that.”

“You’ve read my journal, right? You know there were forty-seven things I wanted with you.”

“Yes. And the forty-seventh thing was everything.”

“And you gave me everything, sweetheart. You gave me more than I could have asked for.” He shifted his weight so we were once again looking at each other. “But you know there is one more thing, right? It’s on the page all by itself. The one that says ‘When I’m gone’.”

“You want me to fall in love again.”

“Yes.”

“Why? Wasn’t our love enough?”

“It was for me. It lasted my whole life. But your life is still going, Sarah. You can have more than one love in a lifetime. I don’t want you to quit living and loving just because I’m not there anymore. This guy, Jude. He’s good for you. He makes you smile and I haven’t heard you laugh like that in a long, long time. You should be with him, not in here with me.”

“It’s just hard. I’m having all these firsts again when I wanted you to be my last. Forever didn’t last long enough for us.”

“Falling for someone else doesn’t mean you don’t still love me. It just means you love someone else too. You have a big heart, sweetheart. There’s room for us all in there.”

I snuggled closer again. “It doesn’t feel like it.”

“That’s because you haven’t let me go yet.”

“I don’t want to.”

“But you have to. Let me go, sweetheart. We’re both tired. We need to rest.”

“No.” I held him tighter.

“Please, sweetheart. Please,” he begged, slowly fading away. I tried to hold on, to keep him beside me. But he vanished the moment I opened my eyes and found that the only thing in my arms was his journal. I’d fallen asleep clutching it, like I had so many times before.

Sitting up, I lifted my hand to my head, my brain throbbing against my skull. The early morning call of birds pierced my skull, reminding me that I’d drunk far too much the night before, and my crying jag had further dehydrated me.

Shuffling into the kitchen, I took some pills and drank some water, trying to make sense of my jumbled mind.

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