Chapter 20. Feeling You

"You know I can feel you, right? Though you're keeping it locked up in you... all your worries, your sadness, your inhibition I can feel them all?" I was holding his hand, while he was sipping coffee after our breakfast in a small coffee shop across from the clinic.

"I know baby...I'm sorry. I just need...damn, I don't even know what I need. Look, I'm going to the gym after work, maybe I need to let out some steam. I haven't been there in a while. I'll pick you up from the clinic at four, then I'll go straight to the gym." He finally laid out his plan, I was worried that he kept on revolving his plans around me.

"Yes, I think you should do that, I already told you that I don't want to be a burden...yes, I know that you don't think that I'm a burden..." I silenced his words as he was about to object.

"But I need you to be happy, being with me is not about worrying about all the things that could happen to me all the time baby...I love you, you should know that.