The Promise He Kept From Me

Please trust me.”

It was unlike him to keep anything from me, especially then.

But he was strangely firm about it.

So I let him do it.

He passed in the hospital with my hand wrapped around his.

Afterward, I signed the final donation papers with tears dripping onto the page.

 

I remembered that Mark wanted this.

 

I had to honor his final wish, even though doing so caused me unbearable pain.