“You don’t know that. You don’t know what will happen when I get comfortable with it. What I’ll do with it. Fears aren’t born of nothing, Troy.”
“No, the fears were born of unsubstantiated myth and the fear of what they can’t understand. I know you, love. Believe me when I tell you that you are still you.” Gently cradling my head, he pulled me close for a kiss.
I wasn’t convinced, but I did let him distract me until my body relaxed against him. Breaking the kiss, I buried my face in his chest and listened to the sound of his heartbeat.
Tomorrow was another leg of a journey that I could not have seen coming, but Troy was here, and maybe that would be enough.
Sleep claimed me.
The next morning, we went to the dining hall. As much as I wanted to pile eggs, pancakes, and sausage on my pla
