Bring Me Home by Cassia Leo

Author:Cassia Leo
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-08-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

Claire

I UNTIE THE WHITE RIBBON first then lift the lid on the shiny, red box. My stomach flips when I see the red, leather-bound book the size of a photo album. Lifting the book out of the box, I lay it on my lap and set the box on the coffee table. I’m almost afraid to open the book for fear that there are pictures of Abigail in here, but I gather my courage and slowly lift the front cover.

My chest fills with a warm sensation as I read the dedication written in Chris’s handwriting:

For Claire, the love of my life and the melody of my soul.

I turn the page and find a sheet of lined paper tucked safely beneath a thin plastic film. Scrawled in Chris’s handwriting, the way he used to write when we were in high school, is the song “Sleepyhead”—the first song he ever wrote for me.

“It’s a songbook, with every song I’ve ever written for you,” he explains. “I tried to put the original sheet of paper I wrote the song on whenever I had it available. Some of them I had to type up—well, Farrah typed them.”

I can barely breathe as I turn the pages and see the names of songs he used to sing to me before we broke up. Each song is bursting with the emotions and memories of the love we shared and lost. After about forty pages, I come to a song I don’t recognize.

“What’s this?”

“It’s the first song I wrote after we broke up.”

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