Owned (Sequel to Sold)

Chapter thirty-nine: Hope

Weeks have passed like a breeze before a storm. Sean is better now and I'm doing my best to keep it that way. I have found that by curing him from his grief has begun to cure me of mine or perhaps has distracted me from it.

I know that if I hadn't decided to care for him I would have tried to do it again. I really would have, but he needs help first.

I don't know if what I'm doing is helping him, but he's learned to smile again. Just yesterday I caught him smiling down at the roses in my backyard.

Now, I watch as he smiles to himself with his eyes closed as he basks in the light from the sun.

For the first time in my life, I have something I've been lost without for a long time: Hope.

Not hope in finding her, but hope in...living. I want to live, I don't want to miss out on my brothers futures. Because I know one day we'll all move on from this and I want to make sure I'm there to see it.

I'm sure I'll never find love again, not like that...but I know I'll have my brothers. Forever...until the day I die.