Chapter 69

But if you came…if you moved through the borders of our secret lives, and if I saw your face again, not in my mind, but with my eyes…

I’d know that art can transcend life and love can survive it.

If not, if you choose to remain on the other side, if you decide to close the gates of our garden forever, I’ll understand.

I’ll even accept it.

But my beautiful man, my half, my heart, my soul…I will always miss you. Davinder

I sat down, the letter shaking violently in my hand. I heard my heart beating inside my ears and for a moment, nothing felt right. I couldn’t breathe.

“What? What did it say?”

Limply, I held out the letter to Cameron and he snatched it out of my hand.

November twenty-third. That was four days from today. I put my face in my hands.

“Oh, Allan,” Cameron cried, grabbing my shoulders. “That’s the most fucking romantic thing I ever read in my life!” He shook me. “Hey? Hello?”