[TM] Ring - Book

[antigone_grace]

The promise was mine. The promise to love him forever, to be his. It's always been mine. And while I wish I could say that I've never minded the one-sidedness of my promise, it would be untrue and anyone who knows me knows how untrue.

He was engaged to someone else, a lover to another. In the beginning, I didn't want him the way I promised. It didn't matter, though, because he did love me. He has loved me ever since that first night when the room I showed him to was mine. Not the room he was looking for, true, but he's loved me since and I've loved him from not long after.

I will always love him. I've loved since and he'll always love others. It's who he is. And I've finally learned, too late, but finally, that though he loves others, dates and spends time with them, he doesn't love me any less than he did the night he made love to me and took my heart from me. And I know, without a doubt, that I truly do belong to him, just like I promised that night.

So many mortals flit through marriages, one after another, and I've been married myself. But this, Anteros' love, is eternal. I would rather have that love than a fleeting marriage. To know that he thinks of me, knowing that I can close my eyes as I lay alone and can remember with fondness the times we've spent together...

It's enough.