and then i loved them

I looked him in the eye demanding a straight up answer.

"Well," I finally said, "Did you?"

He gulped and looked away avoiding my eyes. This wasn't right. I shouldn't even have to ask him this. My heart felt like it was going to explode and I knew I couldn't take it much longer if he didn't answer.

"You are a coward." I whispered as tears began sliding down my cheeks. 

I kept watching him, hoping that he would answer. Praying that he would. 

His silence was all I needed to know that it was true.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Jeremiah 17:9

*and then i loved them is a series of stories written and published on the blog thetreessinghispraises.blogspot.com by Jordan Eaks Copyright 2012*