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262 pages, ebook
First published June 19, 2017
I wanted everything we never did. Everything I’d dreamed of. Everything I didn’t even know to dream about.
She was tourmaline and I was fucking concrete. But she always had been. And I’d always known it.
I tightened. I clenched. I became hard and solid and impenetrable. I made myself my own armor. And it hurt. And it ached. But it kept me safe.
We kissed like we were dying. Like an antidote for pain was in each other’s mouths. We kissed like it was the first time and the last time all at once.
LOST WITHOUT YOU was such a heartbreakingly moving story! About two kids who had a horrible childhood, and how they're fighting for their place in life and love!
Hurry to your nearest amazon for your own Tommy - this one is MINE!!!
All debts must be paid.
"We're not a fairy tale."
But Tommy never told me what he wished, and I knew I was part of whatever it was. Just like he was part of all my wishes that I could never say out loud.
The dream was Beth. The dream was always Beth.
That was the trap he'd laid for me. Why he knew I'd make good on my promise. Because I'd loved this girl once. And failing her was my great regret.
I'd felt, all those years ago, as if I was a post and she was some beautiful bougainvillea - not the purple one but the orange one, the one you rarely saw. I gave her a place to grow, and she made me beautiful.
Our complicated future was nothing compared to our complicated past.
"We're not a fairy tale," I said, and he nodded, his face all folded up, like his thoughts were put away. "I used to think we were."
"So did I," he said and that was a comfort, at least. We'd felt the same way for a while there. And that had enough sweetness in it to last a while.