The Woman With A Ladder

The walls around his heart may not have been physical, but they were real.

He’d grown up fast, a necessity given his ‘childhood’. He had to step up and help look after his siblings, and that meant he’d had to wall off his emotions.

The walls then grew, as he saw how much of an uphill struggle it would be for him to find a partner, find happiness, so he built the walls to protect himself.

But then she came along, and managed to bypass them all, and get inside.

So he declared her a saboteur, and threw her out.