![]() ![]() And I wasn’t even going to touch the one-night-stand issue for fear my head would explode all over the lush carpet. Yet I was about to wrong this perfect stranger. This was the first time I’d stolen anything, and the finality of the situation made me want to throw up. ![]() I tiptoed across the room to his dress pants on the floor, feeling hollow in all the places he’d filled in the previous hours. I was choosing his cash over my integrity.Ĭash that was going to pay my electricity bill and fill prescriptions for Dad this month. ![]() If I stole a glance at him, my conscience would kick in and I’d never go through with it. I rose from the plush mattress, my back to the stranger I’d met this afternoon. ![]() She said a lonely heart-such as my lonely heart-would never fall in love, and so far, she wasn’t wrong.Ĭreamy sheets tangled around my legs like roots as I slipped out of the king-sized bed in the swanky hotel room I’d been occupying for the last several hours. Like Atlas, it carries the weight of our existence on its shoulders quietly, only rebelling when disturbed by love.” That’s why we have lungs, tonsils, hands, legs, fingers, toes, eyes, nostrils, teeth, and lips. On her deathbed, my mother said the heart is a lonely hunter. ![]()
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