I didn't have a plan yet. I didn't know what the next phone call would bring. I only knew that something had changed, and I couldn't go back to pretending I hadn't noticed. Not with mason. Not with my dad. Not with anyone that had shown me time and time again they held no value to the time they had wasted of mine by refusing the things they promised me without prompt in the first place. I spent years - years - trying to find the words that would earn love for myself. Love as a wife. Love as a daughter. Love that didn’t cost me. Love that was… Not like this
