"It was absolutely nothing. I had no ties. No bittersweet memories. I was leaving nothing behind. Never experienced companionship, never been in love. And in that moment, all I felt was loneliness and regret."
But there's always a first time..
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After about 20 minutes sailing in silence and seeing the sun rising, I saw a cabin among the trees, it was the first house I saw after walking the entire coast. I parked the boat up in the sand, from where it probably wouldn't leave for a long time until a tide came up, Harry and I hopped over the edge of the boat and walked over to the cabin, which didn't seem abandoned but it is possible that no one would come here in the fall. I broke the window on the left side of that house that leaded to the laundry and used Harry's blazer to clean the pieces of glass that got stuck in the wood, we jumped through the tiny space and I walked to the living room looking around.
''I hope they have alcohol.'' I heard Harry's voice from the kitchen and chuckled, I saw the fireplace in the living room and immediately walked over to it, using the box of matches and alcohol in a straw basket next to the front door, I organized the wood that was stacked inside it and lit the fire, I was frozen. "Here." I heard Harry and looked up at the gladd of wine he handed me, i took a sip and pulled up a armchair next to the fire, I sat down stretching out a hand towards the heat.
Harry pulled the other armchair beside me and sat down taking off his tie, we were silent for several minutes staring at the fire, I was relieved but at the same time I still had a bad feeling knowing that I could have hurted him. The image of Max dead on the floor gave me chills, I felt bad for ending him like that, as much as he deserved it all, it was something that bothered me. All the bad feeling went away when I looked at Harry's face, his wet hair falling over his forehead and his clothes still soaked, he looked at me resting his elbows on his knees and I felt my heart beat faster.
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''Why are you here?'' He asked, I looked at my hands and turned my attention back to him ''He saved my life, I owed him a favor... But I was tricked, again.'' I took a sip of wine ''How much have you been involved in his business in the past?'' he took a sip of wine while still looking at me ''Not much, almost two years, but I never interfered in his work, I followed orders, nothing more...'' I spoke softly remembering everything I went through ''Is there anyone else involved in all this?" Harry asked getting up and stopping in front of the fire ''No, just Max. I thought you knew everything.'' I looked at him confused "Of him, yes. I owe him my congratulations for having managed to erase everything about you so well that we couldn't even find it." He said "I like to think that we all have something rotten in the past.'' I looked at the cup in my hands ''That's true, but... Should I trust that it was just that?'' When I looked at him I saw the pen drive in his hands, I sighed and bit my lip.
''You can look at everything in there, I won't hide anything from you anymore.'' I said looking into his eyes ''I don't want to know anything, if I see what's here, I won't have any other choice but to...'' as soon as he finished the sentence I felt my stomach turning, still thinking that I would be killed by his hands and the suffering it would cause him ''You will have to trust me.'' I said, holding the cup tightly thinking about all the life that we have ahead "I do.. With one condition." he said playing with the pen drive drive in his hand, I stared at him waiting for his answer.
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''When we get back you have to marry me.'' I giggled when he finished the sentence making him smile ''Would you do that for me?'' I asked in surprise getting up and walking up to him ''If you die... I won't have a single reason to continue...'' he approached my face and touched our foreheads ''I love you, please don't break my heart again, I don't want to love a lie.'' he spoke softly against my face and I stepped back a little staring at him "I love you." I said wiping a tear that escaped his eyes, it was the first time I saw Harry cry "Harry..." I held his face "I don't want to lose you." he sobbed breaking my heart into a thousand pieces, I hugged him tightly and felt his cold clothes against my body ''You won't, I promise.'' I stepped away holding his face, he looked at the pendrive and threw it in the fire, when he looked back at me I kissed him like never before.
