Prologue

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Pain is the only thing I'm sure of. It's like a quiet noise that never goes away. Right after it happened, I felt like I was going to drown in it. I kept asking, "Why me?" but there was no answer.

Time passed, and the shock went away. But a different kind of pain came, a deeper pain. It wasn't a sharp pain, but a dull ache that reminded me you were gone. It felt like a heavy weight in my chest that never goes away.

Then something strange happened. I learned to live with the pain, and I found a different kind of love inside it. It wasn't the love we had before, but a love that came from grief. It's the only way I feel close to you now, the only way I can remember us.

Every time I think of you, I feel the pain of you not being here. But in that pain, I find you. It's the only time you feel real to me.

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