Emptiness was my constant companion.Grief was all I knew. Loneliness was all I felt.Life beat me down. The punches kept coming.I existed. Didn't really live.Then he came into my life.Roman.He was like a battering ram with a silver tongue.But for the first time in so long, I felt something.I felt everything.Peace.Cared for.Hope.But hope led only to disappointment.* * *Loss.Simple. Complicated. Life Altering.I lived alone, consumed by everything I no longer possessed.I had nothing to live for.Mia woke something inside me I thought died long ago.There was finally someone to share my life.This was a dream I'd relinquished long ago.She stirred emotion that I tried to fight, But I wanted her.Needed her.I felt I had something to live for.But hope was a liability I couldn't afford