Epilogue

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Caysons Pov~

Her long fingers find mine and clutch onto my fingers like they are life supports.

She has her eyes trained on a cherry tree where the river rushes along beside it.

Our children play bellow the tree. Picking healthy cherries and putting them in a grass woven basket. Throwing the rotting ones at each other. Squealing they run around the tree and dodge the hits of rotting fruit.

The children with emerald green eyes and honey brown hair. The children that cry and run to me when they are afraid of imaginary monsters in the closet. The children who sit on their mothers lap as I paint their beautiful faces on a canvas.

They were safe from him. We were safe from him. My beauty of a wife turns her head to give me a small smile. I reach my hand out to caress her cheek. To feel her warmth that made me feel at home. I reach my hand out to touch her face. I'm so close to doing so. So close to making us a reality rather than a figment of my imagination. But before I can take her in my arms. Before I can wrap my arms around her shoulders and burry my face in her neck. Before I can call our children over for lunch. Before I can tell her that I love her. Or apologize for not being able to be straight with my feelings...

I wake up.

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