Atlas

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><u>I said marry me.</u></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Atlas</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lauren Locklear.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She has no idea that I would do anything for her. She doesn't understand the mountains I would climb just to keep her safe.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That's okay though I'll make sure she does.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She thinks she's weak and given the lack of love and support from those closest to her I can understand why. That changes now I will make her see the strong woman I see when I look at her.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've pined for her in secret wanting nothing more than to show her what she could have. But with my past still haunting me I knew it would be best to stay back.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That is until she needs access to health insurance and I see a solution to both her problem and my dilemma. All she has to do is say yes.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Ren</em></strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I've done something stupid.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Something reckless.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Something everyone will judge me for and I'm risking everything.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My family. My career. Myself.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm always too much to handle and the men I've allowed into my life have always reminded me of my shortcomings even when it's their fists doing the reminding.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>No one has ever truly cared for me loved me.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And then Atlas Hart asks me to marry him in order to save my life.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This isn't love. It's barely a friendship or so I thought. But as the days go by and I see what he so selflessly risks for me I cannot help but think that maybe... this could be more.</span></p>