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Catching Breath
“Are you all right?” Ben asked me, sliding into the driver’s side of his truck as I buckled my seat belt next to him. He took hold of my hand, his fingers warm against mine.
“I will be,” I assured him, swiping at my tears. “I just… wasn’t expecting this. At all.”
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