Silent Cravings

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Valentina</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>My best friend dropped a bombshell leaving me shattered. The past came rushing back and threatened to consume me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>No one knew. How could they? I spent the last decade putting everyone else first. Anything to keep the attention off me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Because I was over him.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Over us.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It didn't matter until it did.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Alcohol numbed the pain making it easy to fall back into the arms of what never should have been.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now we're stuck planning a wedding together.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I wouldn't make the same mistake twice.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>My broken heart couldn't be ignored.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Evan</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With a father like mine I was blind to see how badly I screwed up all those years ago. Time changed a lot of things but she still had the same effect on me as she had nearly fifteen years ago when we first met.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>We shared a past something we kept to ourselves and moved on from.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Or so I thought.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A reconnection a drunken night made me realize she did something to me no other woman ever had.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She was a force to be reckoned with and if I didn't fix my ways and be the man she needed I would watch her walk away like I did nearly a decade ago.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Only this time I don't think I'll ever get over it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She was mine and I would make her see it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Triggers: Pregnancy Loss</span></p><p><br></p>