This Heart Alternate

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Liam</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The heart is fickle. One day you love something or someone and then the next they destroy you with their lies and that love disappears.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I'm over the lies and the deceit. So I tell my wife I want a divorce only to find out she's fighting for her life against a disease that doesn't like to lose. What kind of man would I be if I went through with ending our marriage knowing she's sick?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>So I stay. I raise our daughter and I'm there to help her when she needs me. Her best friend Aurora is there too which becomes a problem because Aurora is everything my ex isn't and with each passing day I fall harder for her and my guilt for those feelings grows.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Aurora</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Hope told me about her diagnosis I wanted to do anything I could to help her through this. I vowed to be there for her to help in any way I could.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I jumped in to help with Winnie and picked up the slack where Liam couldn't. With each day we watched her condition worsen. I spent more time with them mostly Liam and me and in time we grew to be good friends. After we lost Hope to her illness the friendship I thought I had found in Liam was destroyed when he pushed me away with words that cut to the core. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Liam reaches out to heal the wound between us we begin to grow close again and I can admit to myself that my feelings for Liam go far beyond simple friendship. When Liam shares the biggest secret of his life with me and the truth about his relationship with Hope comes to life everything changes between us. His guilt will not let him fully move on with his life.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How can I convince him that if he'd let me I'd love him and his daughter for eternity? I'd give him this heart with no regrets.</span></p><p></p>