Water for Elephants

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

These encounters leave me both exhausted and recharged, desperate and fulfilled.

strangely alone in the most public of places.

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It’s fate.”

I’ve loved you from the moment I laid eyes on you. But don’t you see? I’m married to August.”

I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.

I lie motionless, savoring the feeling of her body against mine. I’m afraid to breathe in case I break the spell.

others can believe what they like, but I don’t believe for a second that this is the real August and the other an aberration. And yet I can see how they might be fooled—

I am filled to overflowing, bursting with love.

And so I leave, although every bone in my body screams against it.