Enshroud

Sumner

Only time can heal your pain.
If I had a dime for every time someone said that to me, I wouldnt have run away.

Because regardless of what they tell you, time doesnt heal the pain.
Because what I was doing wasnt living, it was a constant reminder of the life Id lost.
Because I couldnt bear the sadness I saw hiding behind Tatums eyes every time he looked at me.

I knew he loved me . . . But for how long?
One day he wouldve woken up and seen the same ugliness that I see every time I look in the mirror.
And that was something I couldnt let happen.

With some help from an unlikely source, I fled to the one place I believed no one would ever find me . . . Virginia. Donald Matthew and Wright Security helped conceal my past so the boy who holds my heart would never find me.

Until he did.

All I wanted was for the nightmares of that day to stop and to be left alone. Im not the same girl I used to be, which is why I need to protect my heart from the devastation Tatums rejection could inflict.

But he refuses to leave me alone.

Should I take the risk and trust him?

Maybe theyre right.
Maybe time can erase the past and heal the pain.

Or, maybe Tatum will destroy whats left of my heart forever.