While I Was Dying, He Was Loving Her

They told me I was dying.

“You need to tell your husband,” Dr. Romano said.

But how do you tell the man you love that your body is betraying you—

when he’s already given his heart to someone else?

I came home to tell Lucas everything… only to hear him say:

“Jemma’s in the hospital! She might be dying! She needs me!”

Jemma.

The woman he married before me. The one who left him shattered. The one he never truly let go of.

While my world collapsed, he ran to her. While I gasped for air, he held her hand. While I was dying, he was loving her.