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00:00You ever try to scrub blood off your hands and pretend it's just paint?
00:03Yeah, me too.
00:04That night, I wasn't supposed to be out there.
00:07My daughter, Lila, was asleep in the back room,
00:11and I'd just finished locking the cafe for the night.
00:14The generator hummed behind me,
00:16the only sound left on that lonely street.
00:19I was tired, bone-tired, the kind that lives behind your eyes,
00:22the kind that makes you wish for silence, not peace.
00:26Then I heard it.
00:27A crash.
00:28Metal against asphalt.
00:30Then nothing, I should have walked away.
00:32God knows I told myself to.
00:34But something about that silence after the sound.
00:37It wasn't right.
00:38It wasn't the silence of nothing.
00:40It was the silence of someone trying not to breathe.
00:43So I went.
00:45The alley smelled like oil and gunpowder.
00:48My flashlight cut through it in slices until it hit him.
00:51A man, half-conscious, leaning against a dumpster,
00:54his black shirt soaked through dark.
00:56He looked like he'd crawled out of hell and decided not to leave.
01:00And I remember thinking,
01:01Don't do this, Marin.
01:03Don't take one more broken thing home.
01:05But he looked up.
01:07Just once.
01:08And his eyes, dark, unfocused, but alive,
01:13caught mine like he'd been waiting for me.
01:14Don't call anyone, he rasped.
01:18Please.
01:19His hand twitched toward the gun on the ground beside him, but it slipped away.
01:24He was fading fast.
01:25I knelt before I could stop myself.
01:27I pressed my hand to the wound under his ribs.
01:30Warm.
01:31Too much blood.
01:33You'll die if I don't.
01:35Maybe that's better.
01:36I don't know what made me say it.
01:38Not tonight.
01:39I dragged him.
01:40God, I don't even know how.
01:41He was heavy.
01:42His breath shallow.
01:43His body limp by the time I got him behind the cafe.
01:47I pulled him through the back door,
01:49into the kitchen where I used to bake muffins before everything fell apart.
01:53The place smelled like burnt sugar and bleach.
01:56He didn't say another word until I pulled the bullet out.
01:59And yes, I did it myself.
02:00I'd learned enough first aid from my father, a paramedic, before he died.
02:04I heated the knife, cleaned the wound,
02:07and prayed Lila wouldn't wake up and see me elbow deep in a stranger's blood.
02:12When it was done,
02:14I tied the gauze around him and leaned back against the counter.
02:17Shaking, he was breathing, barely,
02:19and then, out of nowhere, he said,
02:22You shouldn't have helped me.
02:24That voice.
02:25Low, steady, wrong for someone so close to dying.
02:28It was a voice used to giving orders, not asking for mercy.
02:32Yeah, well, I said.
02:34I've got bad judgment.
02:36His mouth tilted.
02:38Almost a smile.
02:39You'll regret this.
02:41I already do.
02:42He passed out after that.
02:43I should have left him.
02:45I told myself I would.
02:46Just let him rest till morning.
02:48Then call someone.
02:49Anyone.
02:50To take him away.
02:52But the way his chest rose and fell.
02:54Slow, fragile.
02:55I couldn't do it.
02:57I pulled a blanket over him,
02:58turned off the lights,
02:59and sat there watching.
03:01Every sound made me flinch.
03:04It wasn't till dawn that I noticed the tattoo under his collarbone.
03:07Something sharp.
03:09Black ink against skin.
03:10An emblem.
03:12I didn't recognize it then.
03:13But I would.
03:15By sunrise, Lila's laughter filled the hallway.
03:17She toddled into the kitchen, holding her stuffed bear, rubbing her eyes.
03:22Mama, my heart stopped.
03:24I stood up fast, blocking her view.
03:26Sweetheart, go back to your room.
03:28Mama's busy, she blinked, then pointed past me.
03:31Who's that man?
03:32I turned.
03:33He was awake.
03:34Sitting up.
03:35Watching us both.
03:36And even half dead, he looked dangerous.
03:39Calm.
03:40Controlled.
03:40Like the kind of man who could destroy something without raising his voice.
03:45Where am I?
03:46He asked.
03:47My cafe.
03:48I said.
03:49You were shot.
03:50I remember.
03:52His eyes moved to Lila again.
03:54Softer this time.
03:55She yours?
03:56I nodded.
03:57Too slow.
03:58He looked back at me.
04:00You shouldn't have let me in.
04:03Yeah, you mentioned that.
04:05I meant it.
04:06He tried to stand.
04:07Winced, and I caught him before he fell.
04:10His skin was burning, his breath uneven.
04:12He braced his hand on the counter beside me.
04:15His face inches from mine.
04:17Who are you?
04:18I whispered.
04:19His lips curved, faint but cruel.
04:22Someone you should forget.
04:23I stared at him.
04:25Then leave.
04:26He glanced toward the window.
04:28Outside, the street was waking up.
04:29Trucks.
04:30Voices.
04:31Lights spilling between the blinds.
04:33I can't.
04:34Not yet.
04:34Why?
04:35Because the men who did this will come looking.
04:37And if they find me here?
04:39He looked at me, then at Lila.
04:41His jaw tightened.
04:43You'll both be collateral.
04:44Every instinct told me to throw him out.
04:47Call the police.
04:48Run.
04:49But my hand still smelled like his blood.
04:52And that does something to a person.
04:54It ties you to their survival.
04:56So I told him to stay.
04:57Just for a day.
04:59Lila clung to my leg.
05:01Sensing something wasn't right.
05:02I carried her upstairs and tucked her in again.
05:05Promising pancakes I didn't mean to make.
05:08When I came back down, he was standing by the sink.
05:11His shirt open.
05:12Looking at the gauze like it was an inconvenience.
05:15You shouldn't have helped me.
05:17He said again.
05:18Quieter this time.
05:19Then stop reminding me.
05:21He turned.
05:22And for a second, I saw it.
05:24The weight behind his stillness.
05:25Not just a man used to violence, but a man who'd built his life out of it.
05:29What's your name?
05:30I asked.
05:31He hesitated.
05:32Adrian?
05:33Just Adrian?
05:34That's all you need.
05:36He said it like a command.
05:38I hated how it sounded on him.
05:40For the rest of the day, I kept my distance.
05:43He moved a little.
05:44Drank water.
05:44Ate nothing.
05:45Every few hours, his gaze flicked toward the windows like he could see danger breathing outside.
05:51By evening, he spoke again.
05:54You live alone?
05:55Except for her.
05:57He nodded once.
05:58You got anyone who checks on you?
05:59Well, what's that supposed to mean?
06:02Means if I disappear, will anyone come asking?
06:05No, I said, too honest.
06:07Then you're in more danger than you realize.
06:09I wanted to laugh, but it came out bitter.
06:12Because of you?
06:12He didn't deny it.
06:14Later that night, after I locked up again, he was still there, sitting in the dark, his gun disassembled on the table, every piece wiped clean.
06:23I froze in the doorway.
06:25I thought you said you couldn't stay.
06:28I said not yet.
06:29What are you really doing here, Adrian?
06:31He looked at me, slow, deliberate.
06:34Surviving.
06:35Silence stretched between us.
06:37My heart wouldn't slow down.
06:39He wasn't supposed to be handsome.
06:40Men like him never are.
06:42But he was.
06:43Too much.
06:44And I hated myself for noticing.
06:46He picked up the gun, reassembled it with care, like ritual.
06:51You shouldn't trust me, Morrin.
06:53I don't.
06:55You do, he said softly.
06:57I can hear it in your voice.
07:00He wasn't wrong.
07:01Something about him felt like the moment before a storm.
07:05The air shifts.
07:06Your skin prickles.
07:08And you don't know if you should run, or just let it hit.
07:12He set the gun down and leaned back, exhausted.
07:15You saved the wrong man.
07:17Then don't make me regret it.
07:18He met my eyes.
07:21I already have.
07:23That night, I dreamed of sirens, of footsteps running past the windows.
07:28I woke up to real ones.
07:30Voices.
07:31Outside.
07:32Back door.
07:33He whispered from the shadows.
07:35His voice was cold now, clipped.
07:37Get your daughter now.
07:38I didn't move.
07:40Who are they?
07:41The reason I was bleeding.
07:43He pulled me close.
07:44Too close.
07:45And pressed a finger to my lips.
07:47Don't ask.
07:49Just trust me once more.
07:51Lila whimpered upstairs.
07:54And in that moment, I realized something terrifying.
07:58I'd known him less than 24 hours, but the sound of his voice telling me to move was the
08:02first thing that made me feel safe in years.
08:04I grabbed my daughter, her tiny arms wrapping around my neck, and when we ran into that small,
08:11flickering Don, his hand caught mine, and I knew.
08:14Whatever this was.
08:16I wasn't walking out of it clean, because I'd already chosen, and I'd chosen him.
08:20When I tell you the next few days felt like a fever, I mean it.
08:27I barely remember breathing.
08:28Just moving, hiding, pretending it made sense.
08:31He took us to a house on the edge of town.
08:33Not big.
08:34Not luxurious.
08:35Just too quiet.
08:37Like whoever built it didn't expect laughter or warmth.
08:40Only silence and escape routes.
08:43He'd bled through his shirt again by the time we got there.
08:45I helped him to the couch, unwrapped the bandage, and saw fresh red spreading beneath the gauze.
08:52He didn't flinch.
08:54Didn't even look down.
08:55You're reopening it, I said.
08:58I can't stay still.
08:59Then you'll die.
09:01He gave me this ghost of a smirk.
09:03You keep saying that like it's a bad thing.
09:06Because it is.
09:07Not for men like me.
09:09His voice was low, calm, fatalistic.
09:12But his hand trembled when he tried to lift a glass of water.
09:16So I took it from him.
09:17Held it to his lips.
09:18He hesitated, then drank.
09:20Why are you helping me again?
09:22He asked.
09:23I don't know.
09:25That's not an answer.
09:27It's the only one I have.
09:29He didn't push it.
09:30Just leaned back, eyes half closed.
09:33The moment stretched until I had to walk away from it.
09:36I put Lila down in the guest room upstairs.
09:39She asked me if the man was sick.
09:40I told her yes, just sick.
09:43And she nodded like that was enough.
09:45Children don't need details to care.
09:48When I came back down, he was gone.
09:50Panic hit so hard it made me dizzy.
09:52Then I heard the door creak.
09:54He stood outside, barefoot in the cold morning light, gun in hand,
09:58scanning the tree line like he expected death to appear.
10:02You shouldn't be out here, I said.
10:05He didn't look back.
10:07You shouldn't have come with me.
10:09Did I have a choice?
10:11You could have run the other way.
10:12Not with her.
10:14He glanced over his shoulder.
10:16The expression on his face, half warning, half something else,
10:19hit harder than I wanted it to.
10:22You keep saying I shouldn't have helped you, I said.
10:25Why?
10:26Because you're dangerous?
10:27Because everyone around me ends up hurt.
10:30I'm already hurt.
10:31He looked at me then, fully, directly.
10:36And for a moment, it wasn't danger in his eyes.
10:40It was grief.
10:43That afternoon, he fixed the generator behind the house.
10:47He worked quietly, methodically, like it was something he'd done a thousand times.
10:52Watching him, I caught glimpses of someone normal,
10:54someone who could have been anything else if the world had given him a chance.
10:57He noticed me watching.
11:00You think I was born this way?
11:03No, I think you learned it.
11:04He nodded once, slow.
11:06You learn fast when losing means someone else bleeds.
11:09Is that what happened to you?
11:11Something like that.
11:12He never gave me more.
11:14But every time his voice went low like that,
11:16I felt the weight of a hundred things he'd never say.
11:19That night, after Lila fell asleep,
11:23he sat at the kitchen table cleaning his weapon.
11:27It had become routine.
11:28Him, that table, the quiet sound of metal and breath.
11:32Who are they?
11:33I asked.
11:34The men after you.
11:36His hand stilled.
11:37They're not after me, he said.
11:39They're after what I took.
11:41What did you take?
11:42He slid a look at me.
11:44A life.
11:45I stared at him, waiting for something human to flicker in his face.
11:49It didn't.
11:50Not right away, then.
11:52He killed someone I loved.
11:54I returned the favor.
11:55I should have been terrified.
11:57I wasn't.
11:58Maybe because he said it like he hated himself for it.
12:01Was she your wife?
12:02No.
12:03He looked away.
12:04My brother.
12:05Something cracked in his tone.
12:07Small, but there.
12:08After that, I didn't ask more.
12:10The air between us was thick with things we both wished we didn't understand.
12:15Days passed.
12:17No one came.
12:17But every night he stood by the window like a shadow waiting for its shape to be recognized.
12:24Lila started calling him Mr. A.
12:26She'd peek into the kitchen, offer him cookies she half-burned, ask if he was feeling better.
12:32He'd almost smile, just at her.
12:34Never at me, but sometimes.
12:36When she'd run upstairs and I'd be left washing the dishes, I could feel him behind me,
12:40close enough that the air bent around his silence.
12:42You should sleep, I told him once.
12:46So should you.
12:47I don't.
12:49Why not?
12:50Because peace feels like a lie.
12:52He didn't respond.
12:53But his hand brushed my wrist when he passed the plate I missed.
12:57Just a touch.
12:58Barely there.
12:59And it burned.
13:00Later, when the lights went out, power gone again, I lit a candle.
13:05The shadows moved like they were breathing.
13:07He sat across from me, eyes fixed on the flame.
13:10I used to think I'd die before anyone ever looked at me like that.
13:13He said,
13:14Like what?
13:16Like I could still be saved.
13:17I didn't speak.
13:18Because that was the moment I realized I was looking at him like that.
13:22And I hated it.
13:24The next morning, it all broke.
13:27He went out for food.
13:28Said he'd be gone ten minutes.
13:30He came back thirty later.
13:32Blood on his sleeve.
13:33Anger written across every line of his face.
13:36What happened?
13:37I demanded.
13:38They found us.
13:39My stomach dropped.
13:40Here?
13:41No, not yet.
13:42He grabbed a duffel from under the stairs.
13:45Started loading magazines and cash.
13:47Adrian.
13:48He cut me off.
13:49You're leaving tonight.
13:50With you?
13:52No.
13:52Then where?
13:53He met my eyes.
13:55And I saw it.
13:56The decision already made.
13:58Cruel and absolute.
14:00You and your daughter go to the address I wrote on that paper near the stove.
14:04You don't wait.
14:05You don't call anyone.
14:06You don't come back.
14:07And you?
14:08I'll draw them away.
14:10No.
14:10Maren.
14:11I said no.
14:12My voice cracked.
14:13You dragged me into this.
14:15You don't get to disappear and call it protection.
14:18He exhaled.
14:19Slow.
14:20Controlled.
14:20Then quietly.
14:21You don't understand who they are.
14:24Then make me.
14:25He hesitated.
14:26Then said.
14:27The man I killed.
14:28He wasn't just anyone.
14:30He was the son of my boss.
14:32The silence that followed was suffocating.
14:34You work for the mafia.
14:36I said flatly.
14:38Worked.
14:39You're running from them.
14:40I'm not running.
14:42Then what the hell do you call this?
14:43He stepped closer, voice sharp.
14:45I call it trying to keep you alive.
14:48Something in me broke then.
14:50You should have left me bleeding in that alley too.
14:54I tried.
14:55He said.
14:56But you didn't let me.
14:58We stood there.
14:59Two people who shouldn't exist in the same world.
15:02He reached for me.
15:03Hesitated.
15:05Then let his hand drop.
15:07I told you saving me would make you my weakness.
15:09He said.
15:10Now you know why.
15:11I wanted to hate him.
15:13I wanted to scream.
15:14But all I could feel was this pull.
15:16Violent and inevitable.
15:18You're not my problem.
15:20I whispered.
15:21He smiled.
15:22Bitter.
15:23No.
15:23I'm your mistake.
15:25He turned away then.
15:26Grabbing his jacket.
15:28Where are you going?
15:29To finish what I started.
15:31Adrian.
15:33But he was already at the door.
15:35Don't wait for me.
15:36He said without turning back.
15:39I followed him outside.
15:40The night cold enough to hurt.
15:42If you walk out that door you don't get to come back.
15:45He paused.
15:46The moonlight caught on his jaw.
15:49On the scar I hadn't noticed before near his throat.
15:52Then I guess this is goodbye.
15:54He walked away.
15:56Disappearing into the dark.
15:58I stood there until I couldn't feel my hands.
16:02Hours later.
16:03When I finally went back inside.
16:05Lila was awake.
16:07She looked at me with sleepy confusion.
16:09Where's Mr. A?
16:10I forced a smile.
16:12He had to go.
16:13Will he come back?
16:15I swallowed.
16:16No.
16:17She nodded like it was just another bedtime story ending too soon.
16:20But deep down.
16:21I knew that wasn't true.
16:23Because not even an hour later.
16:24I heard the distant echo of gunfire.
16:27And I knew.
16:29Whatever he was doing out there.
16:30It was for us.
16:32That's when I realized it wasn't just that I'd saved him.
16:35He'd already decided to save me too.
16:38Even if it killed him.
16:43Three weeks.
16:44That's how long it took for silence to sound safe again.
16:47The night he left, I thought it would be the last time I ever heard his voice.
16:53But his words never left my head.
16:55You made me your weakness.
16:57It didn't sound like a threat anymore.
16:59It sounded like a truth he didn't know how to bear.
17:02Lila and I stayed in that house longer than we should have.
17:05I kept waiting for someone to come.
17:07His men.
17:08Their men.
17:09The police.
17:10But no one did.
17:11Just the wind through the dry trees.
17:13The hum of the refrigerator.
17:14And the steady rhythm of my daughter's breathing at night.
17:18I cleaned his blood off the tiles.
17:21Folded the blanket he'd used.
17:23Put away the knife I'd used to save him.
17:25Each act felt like burying something I didn't have the right to mourn.
17:29Then the letter came.
17:31No envelope.
17:33Just a sheet of paper under the front door.
17:36If you're reading this, it means I kept my promise.
17:39You're safe.
17:40Don't look for me.
17:41No name.
17:41But I didn't need one.
17:42The next day I packed our things and left.
17:46I took Lila to a small coastal town three hours south.
17:50New name on the lease.
17:51Cash deposit.
17:52No questions asked.
17:54The cafe was gone.
17:55The city too loud with ghosts.
17:58I didn't tell anyone where we went.
17:59Maybe I didn't even know myself.
18:01But nights were the hardest.
18:03When the world went still,
18:04I'd hear that voice again.
18:06Low and calm and ruined by too much truth.
18:09I told myself I'd forget.
18:12I told myself what every survivor says when they can't admit what they've lost.
18:16It wasn't love.
18:18It was survival.
18:19But survival doesn't haunt you.
18:22It doesn't make your chest ache when you hear a car engine idle too long outside your window.
18:26It doesn't make you dream of a man who never asked to be forgiven.
18:29It was almost two months before I saw him again.
18:34It was late.
18:35After closing.
18:36I was wiping down the counter of the diner I'd started working in.
18:40Lila was in the back, drawing with crayons on napkins.
18:43The bell over the door rang, and I didn't even look up at first.
18:46Then I heard it.
18:48That voice.
18:49Coffee.
18:51Black.
18:52My hands froze.
18:53When I turned, it was him.
18:55Adrian.
18:56Alive, but not the same.
18:58His face was thinner, his left arm bandaged, and there was a tiredness in his eyes that
19:03hadn't been there before, like the part of him that once belonged to the shadows had burned out.
19:09For a long moment, neither of us moved.
19:13The sound of the clock filled the air.
19:16You shouldn't be here, I whispered.
19:19I had nowhere else left to go.
19:21I poured the coffee, set it in front of him.
19:24My hands shook.
19:25You were supposed to disappear.
19:28I tried.
19:30He smiled faintly, but it didn't reach his eyes.
19:34Turns out I'm not good at staying gone.
19:36What happened to them?
19:38They're gone.
19:39His tone was simple, but the edge underneath it told me what it had cost him.
19:44All of them.
19:45He took a slow sip of coffee, then looked around the room like he was memorizing it.
19:50You look different.
19:52Different how.
19:53Like peace doesn't scare you anymore.
19:55He was wrong.
19:56Peace still terrified me, because I didn't know what to do with it.
20:01Lila spotted him then.
20:02She ran out from the back, laughing, her hair tied up in a messy ponytail.
20:07Mr. A.
20:08His head snapped toward her, and for the first time, something cracked through his calm.
20:12He crouched down, even though it clearly hurt him, and let her wrap her arms around his neck.
20:19You remember me?
20:20He asked.
20:21She nodded into his shoulder.
20:23You fixed the generator, he laughed softly.
20:26It was the first real sound of life I'd heard from him.
20:28When she went back to her drawings, we stood there, him leaning against the counter, me trying to keep my breathing steady.
20:38You shouldn't have come, I said again, quieter this time.
20:42He looked down, turning the coffee cup in his hands.
20:45I didn't come for forgiveness.
20:48Then what?
20:49He met my eyes.
20:51To tell you it's over.
20:52I didn't ask what it was.
20:54I didn't need to.
20:56I saw it in the lines of his face.
20:58The battles fought in alleys and warehouses.
21:01The years of loyalty and blood that had finally ended.
21:04He reached into his jacket and pulled out a small object.
21:07An old silver locket.
21:10I found this in the cafe, he said.
21:13Figured it was yours.
21:15I took it.
21:16The hinge creaked when I opened it.
21:18Inside was a picture of my father.
21:20I hadn't even realized it was missing.
21:22You went back there?
21:23Once.
21:24To make sure no one was waiting for you.
21:26I closed the locket and felt the air catch in my chest.
21:30Why are you telling me all this now?
21:32Because I'm leaving again.
21:34This time for good.
21:35No.
21:36It came out before I could stop it.
21:38You don't get to walk in here.
21:39Tell me you lived.
21:40And then vanish again.
21:42He gave a faint smile.
21:43You want me to stay?
21:46I didn't answer.
21:47You don't, he said quietly.
21:49You just don't want to lose what you think we were.
21:52What we were?
21:53My voice trembled.
21:55We saved each other.
21:57Maybe.
21:58But saving someone doesn't mean you belong to them.
22:01I hated him for saying that.
22:03Mostly because it was true.
22:04He looked at me then.
22:07Really looked.
22:08You're stronger now.
22:09That's what I wanted.
22:11Don't act like this was some kind of plan.
22:14It wasn't.
22:15His voice softened.
22:17But if you hadn't found me that night, I'd be dead.
22:19And if I hadn't walked away, you'd be next.
22:22That's the truth.
22:23Then why come back?
22:24He hesitated, then said.
22:26Because I needed to see you alive before I could finally stop running.
22:30Something in me broke open.
22:33All the anger, the confusion, the ache.
22:36I wanted to yell, to hit him, to hold him, to make him stay.
22:41Instead, I just stood there, shaking.
22:44He stepped closer.
22:45Close enough that I could smell the faint trace of smoke and rain on his skin.
22:50I don't have a place in your world, he said.
22:53But you'll always have one in mine.
22:55I felt tears burn the back of my throat.
22:58You think saying that makes it easier?
23:00No.
23:01I think saying it makes it real.
23:03Then he reached out, just one hand barely touching the side of my face.
23:08The gesture was careful.
23:10Reverent.
23:11Like he was afraid I might vanish if he touched me too hard.
23:15He whispered.
23:17For what?
23:18For making me wish I'd been a better man.
23:20He turned, then.
23:22Walked toward the door.
23:24Adrian.
23:25He paused.
23:26Looked back once.
23:28What?
23:28You don't have to be who you were, I said.
23:32Not anymore.
23:33For a second, something flickered in his eyes.
23:36Hope.
23:37Disbelief.
23:38Maybe both.
23:39Then he nodded once and walked out into the night.
23:42The bell above the door chimed, then fell silent.
23:45I didn't chase him.
23:48I couldn't.
23:49Because for the first time since all of it began, I finally understood what peace was.
23:55It wasn't forgetting.
23:57It was forgiving the part of yourself that wanted to go back.
24:00Months passed.
24:01Lila started kindergarten.
24:03I bought the diner from the owner who wanted to retire.
24:06We painted the walls yellow.
24:07I told myself I was building something that would last.
24:11Every so often, I'd see a black car parked too long across the street.
24:15Maybe it was coincidence.
24:16Maybe not.
24:17But it never scared me.
24:19Then one evening, just as the sun dipped low, a package arrived.
24:24No return address.
24:26Inside was a single photo.
24:28Me and Lila, taken from across the street.
24:30On the back, one line.
24:33Keep living.
24:34That's the only promise that counts.
24:36No signature.
24:37But I knew the handwriting.
24:39I put the photo in the drawer under the counter.
24:42I didn't cry.
24:43I didn't smile.
24:45I just felt something settle inside me.
24:47A quiet certainty.
24:48He was out there.
24:49Not mine.
24:50Not gone.
24:51Just somewhere in the world where people like him don't belong, but try anyway.
24:55And maybe that's what love really is.
24:57Not a fairy tale.
24:58Not a curse.
24:59Just two broken people who met in the wrong place.
25:02At the wrong time.
25:03And somehow managed to make each other believe in light again.
25:07So when I lock up at night, I still hear his voice sometimes.
25:10Low.
25:11Calm.
25:12Almost a whisper.
25:13You made me your weakness.
25:15But I know better now.
25:16He wasn't my weakness.
25:17He was the part of me that finally decided to live.
25:20If her confession held you till the end.
25:23If you felt the ache.
25:24The danger.
25:25The pull.
25:27Then stay.
25:27There are more stories like hers, whispered from the edge of survival, where love isn't
25:33soft, and healing doesn't come clean.
25:36Subscribe for the next confession.
25:37If you feel the pain.
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25:38If you feel the pain.
25:38Then stay.
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25:51You feel the pain.
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