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Her awe morphed into a brilliant smile, and for a second, I was afraid my heart had actually stopped beating.
And I wondered if I’d finally succeeded in chipping past that last wall Monroe had been guarding her heart with.
he put me first.
He was beautiful. The most beautiful thing I’d ever seen.
“But the grief still comes in waves sometimes, you know? And anger too. Because even though she couldn’t be who I wanted…who I needed…she was still my mom. And maybe she did the best she could, and I just need to accept that—anyways—what I’m trying to say—is that sometimes when it hurts, when it hurts so bad I feel like I can’t breathe, I send her light.” “You send her…light?” Lincoln asked, clearly confused. I nodded against his neck. “I think of the happiest things I can, and I picture sending them to her, wherever she is. Every time it hurts, I send her light. I tell her that I hope she’s
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“I think, maybe, you should send Tyler light. You should talk to him. Tell him you hope he’s happy, that you love him, and then…you should forgive yourself.”
“What if the best way for you to honor Tyler’s memory is to live…for him? And I mean to truly Iive—to strip off the pain that makes it so you can barely say his name. What if we talk about Tyler all the time? What if we honor his memory by making it happy—like he was.”
His eyes were starstruck as he stared down at me. A girl could fall in love in an instant being looked at like that.
“Did I make it better, or worse?” I asked. “Better. Always better, dream girl. You’ve changed my whole life.
We used that word a lot. That we were everything. And it seemed so fitting. It seemed the only word to use when explaining the fact that your soulmate was a living breathing being that set your world on fire just by looking at them.
Monroe was everything to me. She’d become the reason I woke up every morning. The reason I breathed.
We’d both bleed out before I let her go.
I’d do whatever it took to keep Monroe by my side. Even if that meant losing myself in the process.