He told me it wasn't my fault. Asked when I was coming home.
[Riley's heartbeat has been all over the place, but never any one beat for very long. Steady, regardless. Ellie counts them again, always in groups of two. Two heartbeats, twenty, two hundred...]
Like it didn't even matter.
[It still makes no sense to her. That love could be unconditional, that it could endure so much.]
action;
[Riley's heartbeat has been all over the place, but never any one beat for very long. Steady, regardless. Ellie counts them again, always in groups of two. Two heartbeats, twenty, two hundred...]
Like it didn't even matter.
[It still makes no sense to her. That love could be unconditional, that it could endure so much.]