Perhaps I’m so deluded that I think Val would read it and understand. Forgive. Say nicer things of me to the children, including the child I’ll never know. But she won’t. Alex never understood and could never have understood my feelings for Val, just as Val—well, there’s no point.
I should take it with me. If there were a blazing log fire here, or one in that freezing station hall, I could perform a grand gesture and watch it blacken, curl and disappear.
And Alex—my Alexander—would be lost forever.
I should take it with me.
Other Titles by Erastes from Cheyenne Publishing
Frost Fair
Hard & Fast
(novella included in
Speak Its Name
anthology)
Other Titles from Cheyenne Publishing
Prove a Villain
by K.C. Warwick
The Glass Minstrel
by Hayden Thorne
A Hundred Little Lies
by Jon Wilson
The Filly
by Mark R. Probst
Home Fires Burning
by Charlie Cochrane
Hidden Conflict: Tales from Lost Voices in Battle