“Why do you think you are going to lose me?” I asked. He was being unusually vulnerable, showing me this side of him. I both wanted to respect it, while also learning more. Maybe if we could uncover the root cause of this fear, I could help him combat it.
“You were almost taken from me so many times,” Damien said. “There were times when… I thought I did lose you.”
I tried to think back. He could have been talking about when I was taken in the van but I felt like this was deeper than that. This last time, he came to my rescue and saved me before I could be hurt. The hurt in his face told of something far worse.
Though I was standing in front of him whole and healthy, he looked like he was grieving.
“I don’t know what happened in the past, or what you are facing now,” I said. “But when y
