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Reece
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I knew that this trip was likely to be very hard for me. Not that it would be physically demanding, or that I would have a hard time doing things. No, I knew that I was not going to be at my wife's side every step of the way.
It's not that I am overly clingy and just want to stay with her. No, it's because I wouldn't be there to protect her all the time. I was going to have to let go. I was going to be forced to step aside and let others be there for her.
Was that what it meant for her to be the queen? Was she going to keep ascending higher and higher and eventually leave me behind? It would serve me right, in all honesty. I was head over heels, deeply in love with her. But I had been an asshole to her, I had nearly ruined everything before it ever started. It would be a fitting punishment from the powers that be to punish me by being left behind by her greatness.