A Shot of Pretty Poison (Pretty Poison Trilogy #3)

by Kelsey Clayton

“Ten minutes?” he asks, and I nod. “See, that’s where we differ. You only need ten minutes with me, but I needed the rest of my life with you.”

“There’s a part of me that still loves you,” I say honestly. “There’s always going to be a part of me that still loves you. But right now, there’s a part of me that wants to hate you, and I’m not sure which is stronger.” She sniffles, wiping away her tears and nodding. “I get that. I do.” I get up from the table and put my fist on it. “Just do me a favor?”

“Anything,” she replies, and I know she means that. “Don’t go anywhere until I figure it out.”

“So, that’s her, huh?” she asks. “The girl who made it so you don’t believe in love anymore?”

“I believe in love,” I say simply. “I just don’t believe in it with anyone but her.”

“I don’t hate you, baby,” I whisper. “I just hate that I wasn’t enough.”

If I have gray hairs, it’s because I married half of this generation’s Thelma and Louise.

will spend the rest of my life being incomprehensibly in love with her. And if there’s a life after this one, I’ll go to the ends of the earth to find her again,

because her soul and mine are two halves of a whole. There’s no me without her.