In the split second when I realized what was about to happen, my eyes met hers and I said what I thought would be my last words, “I love you, Corazón.”
She’d laughed and pulled the trigger anyway.
That was one year ago today, and in that time, I’d spent a month in a coma and four months learning to walk again. Learning to love again was something I’d never be able to do. I didn’t want to.
“Montano?” I heard my mother call my name.
“Someone actually expects you to get off your ass?” Carlos muttered, but I knew he was joking. He’d been there, along with my closest friend, Monk, through weeks of agonizing rehab when I was forced to work my body harder than I ever had.
“There’s someone here to see you,” she added.
I rounded the corner of the yard to the front of the house and gripped the front porch’s railing when I saw the ghost that stood before me. “Corazón?”
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