CHAPTER 259 — Where Love Allows Itself to Fall Apart

And that was when I saw him.

I saw him break.

Not with tears.

With that quiet, masculine way of breaking that is sometimes even harder to watch: a sigh that lasts too long, his gaze dropping, his shoulders sagging as if only then could they stop holding up the weight of everything.

“No, my love, never… I was in the hospital all day,” he said.

The world stood still around me.

“What do you mean, you were in the hospital?” I asked, feeling the b