Save My Heart by DC Renee

Author:DC Renee [Renee, DC]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: D.C. Renee
Published: 2017-11-17T18:30:00+00:00

Kieran

I didn’t know bliss could take on a physical form until I watched Dahlia tremble under my fingers. That was indescribable, but that wasn’t the bliss I was referring to. No, it was knowing she’d saved herself for me, knowing just what she looked like when she came, knowing I could touch her in the way she needed to be touched, the way she deserved to be touched, knowing I was the cause of her bliss. All of that was a real and tangible thing that I felt like I was grasping, holding it for dear life.

It felt like some sort of medal, and I had just won it.

I hadn’t wanted to let her go, but I understood why she needed to leave. Ro would come first. She’d always come first, and rightly so.

Thinking of Roanna made my heart hurt as the irony was not lost on me.

She wasn’t my daughter, but she became mine the minute I’d accepted her as a patient. I didn’t like thinking of what teenage boys could do, especially since I’d been one myself, but I couldn’t help but wonder if she would ever live a normal life where she went to parties, drank too much, and experienced the kind of all-consuming joy being with another person worthy of your time and attention could provide.

Would she grow up and date a guy Dahlia would approve of, and who knows—one I would approve of?

I wholeheartedly believed she could and she would, but I wasn’t God. No matter what I did or how well I took care of her, I couldn’t change her fate. Only the misfortune of someone else—someone who no longer needed a heart of their own and was willing to donate it to someone else, along with timing and some luck—could change her fate.

Until then, I’d do all I could to make sure she stayed with us. And more importantly, that she felt normal.

So the three of us were on a “date.” More of a family outing, I guess you could say. Mom, daughter, and Mom’s boyfriend? Was that what I was? Was it too adolescent to call her my girlfriend? Too presumptuous?

I’d have to figure that out.

“You and Ro are mine all day Sunday,” I had told Dahlia a few days before.

“Um, okay,” she answered. “What are we doing?”

“Having a Sunday Funday,” I told her, causing her to laugh. “Dress casually and be prepared to enjoy yourself.”

It had actually been harder to plan a fun day for a girl who couldn’t stimulate her heart. Roller coasters were out, water parks too. There were museums, but I wasn’t sure a fifteen-year-old girl would like that.

It was actually my mom who helped me.

When I had called to tell her I was taking Dahlia on our first date, she responded with, “I knew I raised a smart boy.” When she asked how my second date went, and I told her it was fantastic, she chuckled. I think she understood more than I would have liked her to.

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