Page 26 of Tattooed Sweetheart

This was my family.

The shit I’d gone through in my life before meeting Flora had all been worth it, because if I hadn’t experienced it, I never would have gotten to this point. I didn’t know it was humanly possible to love this hard, to be this consumed with the need to protect and provide. But with my family, I had that in abundance.

I had my tattoo shop, which was thriving better than I could have ever expected. Flora had her coffee shop, which was renowned in Sweetheart. I had my wife, and she forever had me. And then we had these two little miracles who were a little bit of each of us and showed us daily that great things came in time.

You just had to work for them.