The song faded out, but he didn't let go. He just held on tighter.
Liam didn't flinch. He leaned in, pressing his forehead against hers. "You think I’m here for the easy parts? The sunlit days and the laughs?" Emeli SandГ© - My Kind of Love
The fluorescent lights of the oncology ward hummed with a sterile, relentless energy, but inside Room 412, the world was quiet. The song faded out, but he didn't let go
He was telling her, without needing the words, that his love wasn't a fair-weather contract. It was a shelter. He leaned in, pressing his forehead against hers
He pulled out his phone and hit play on a song they’d loved years ago, back when life felt unbreakable. The soulful, steady beat of began to fill the small room.
Liam sat by the bed, his fingers traced the blue veins on Sarah’s hand—mapped out like fragile rivers. They had been there for three weeks. The initial shock of the diagnosis had long since faded, replaced by a heavy, rhythmic exhaustion.