Now and forever.

“From now on. Let it be just me and you. I want to take this journey with you, to build a family together and give this child the love and support it deserves. I want to marry you, Keirah. If you let me. I am going to protect you and the baby with every breath I will take from now on.”

Keirah breaks into tears. She weeps nonstop and her tears are washed away with the rain on her face. “Is that a, yes?”

“No....it’s a no. I am a married woman, Luciano. Although it was just a marriage on paper, I knew what I was getting myself into. I feel so sad that I left. I feel so sad that I thought running away from you was a solution.

“I now know what I missed out on and what I will miss out on…I wanted to protect my baby from all this. I should have stayed with you to help you get us out. Instead, I left. I ran away.