Love Only Exists If You Say the Words

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scent. Love, her father said, is like an ocean wave. Beautiful and serene from a distance, violent and dangerous if you get too close.</p><p id="4dc0">You don’t realize the enormous power until it crashes around you. Because love, like the ocean wave, disguises its danger beneath a beautiful facade. But beauty deceives. It makes you drop your guard until you become vulnerable before dragging you out into the dark abyss.</p><p id="4e13">Leah tried brushing off these rambling of an old man, excusing them as last-minute wisdom before he departed for the next world.</p><p id="0a0a">But something had changed. Something seismic. Leah saw it spreading like a pox across her face whenever thoughts of Devin invaded her mind. Then there were the nightmares. Vivid dreams of a quiet suburban home with kids playing on an oversized playset bought from Costco.</p><p id="52ff">Everything Leah despised.</p><p id="33c1">Yet, enticed her.</p><p id="c950">Why? Why her? Why now? Why Devin?</p><p id="59bf">They met on Tinder. A place meant to find a warm body to ease you through a lonely night, not to find love. The men she met there rarely returned for seconds. Rarely d

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id she want them to.</p><p id="7627">Until Devin.</p><p id="756f">His beauty seduced her. Blinded her to the wave's momentum until it dragged her out past the buoys to the place where lights from shore twinkle like stars in the sky.</p><p id="2d5a">Yet, Leah continued resisting the current.</p><p id="5dc6"><i>Love isn’t real. It only exists if you say the words.</i></p><p id="6dba"><i>This too shall pass.</i></p><p id="89c8"><b>Want to know what happens when Leah accidentally lets her feelings slip? Read the story below:</b></p><div id="a433" class="link-block"> <a href="https://sloanjamesauthor.medium.com/not-quite-wife-material-9012f23d8c62"> <div> <div> <h2>Not Quite Wife Material</h2> <div><h3>And then he said, ‘But You’re Not Quite Wife Material.’</h3></div> <div><p>sloanjamesauthor.medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*l-WmOBovAxzYNDRtibXm4Q.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

And Leah had no intention of ever breathing them aloud

Leah stood in the mirror and swayed on her feet like a weed beneath the river’s current. Graceful yet unsteady. Beautiful and powerless.

How did this happen?

The thought angered and unsettled her. Made her feel weak and out of control. Showed in the softening of her defined edges, like someone had ran sandpaper and smoothed out the sharpness in her features.

This Leah was foreign to her. She didn’t like this version. Love fitted her like a pair of heels one size too small or a dress that didn’t hug her seductive curves. It just didn’t look right on her.

Words of her late father flashed through her mind as Leah spritzed a plume of Louboutin perfume and stepped through the woody scent. Love, her father said, is like an ocean wave. Beautiful and serene from a distance, violent and dangerous if you get too close.

You don’t realize the enormous power until it crashes around you. Because love, like the ocean wave, disguises its danger beneath a beautiful facade. But beauty deceives. It makes you drop your guard until you become vulnerable before dragging you out into the dark abyss.

Leah tried brushing off these rambling of an old man, excusing them as last-minute wisdom before he departed for the next world.

But something had changed. Something seismic. Leah saw it spreading like a pox across her face whenever thoughts of Devin invaded her mind. Then there were the nightmares. Vivid dreams of a quiet suburban home with kids playing on an oversized playset bought from Costco.

Everything Leah despised.

Yet, enticed her.

Why? Why her? Why now? Why Devin?

They met on Tinder. A place meant to find a warm body to ease you through a lonely night, not to find love. The men she met there rarely returned for seconds. Rarely did she want them to.

Until Devin.

His beauty seduced her. Blinded her to the wave's momentum until it dragged her out past the buoys to the place where lights from shore twinkle like stars in the sky.

Yet, Leah continued resisting the current.

Love isn’t real. It only exists if you say the words.

This too shall pass.

Want to know what happens when Leah accidentally lets her feelings slip? Read the story below: