LILA

I've come to realize that the things you shove aside? They always come back to eat you up.

But you know what's worse? Living in fear of when they'll return.

These past few days, the idea of the curse hadn't even crossed my mind... until now. Good things, they say, never last for long.

I blink awake to the weight of Rafael's leg lazily entangled with mine. His arm drapes over my waist like I belong there, like I've always belonged there. And of course I do belong there.

Watching him sleep, so peacefully, so deeply, I can swear he hadn't gotten a wink the entire time we were...