Strike pushed his way through the ferns, tears attempting to make it to his eyes but he told himself that he would be strong and he would not let them fall. Bella would want him to stay strong. Bella would have stayed strong. Bella deserved someone who could stay strong. And I had to prove to myself that I deserved Bella. That this wasn't destiny's cruel way of telling him that she was always too good to be true-that she was too special, too rare, to have been something he could just have. That had been three weeks ago. ...Right? Then he'd snort and call her ridiculous. File:Rain Falls.jpeg