This is a promise I can keep. I don’t want you to live without it any more.” He got out of the bed, walked up behind her, and wrapped his arms around her. “I’m sorry you you haven’t had somebody take care of you but I want to be that somebody, let me be that somebody.”

Silent tears began to run down her face. They walked over to her bed, he climbed under the covers, and held it up for her to get in. She climbed in moved in close to him; he wrapped her around her. She laid her head on his chest.