Will You Love Me So?

IN WHICH-

He loved her too much.

Not in the soft, dreamy way stories are told. But in the way syrup pours too thick. In the way love clings to the throat. In the way sweetness turns suffocating.

She smiled. And he offered his heart.

She hesitated.

He shoved it into her hands, her mouth, her world.

Hoping she'd learn to live with it inside her.