Reason to Live

“Let’s take turns. I want to feed you now,” I said as I took the fork back from his hand.

Bradon frowned slightly at me to show his slight disapparoval but he did not stop me when I began feeding him. I got some sauce on his lips which gave me the opportunity to lightly dab at his lips with a napkin. His blue eyes looked so alluring and captivating as he looked back at me. My heart clenched tightly in my chest and I wondered if things may be different between us had we met under different circumstances as more normal people without any of our complex past.

Wistful thinking wans’t going to change anything, though.

“Bradon…” I called his name softly to get his attention.

“What is it?” he asked dryly the way that I expected that he would.

“What does a person need in order to survive?” I asked.

“Food, water, clothing, sleep, and shelter. The basic necessities for a human to survive,” he replied as if reciting from a book.