In the Likely Event

by Rebecca Yarros

“Astors do what needs to be done.”

Don’t waste your life waiting on me,

Never apologize for doing what you need to.

I was stuck in a perpetual cycle of trying to please the men in my life, only to have them abandon me at their convenience.

As far away as a lifetime and as close as yesterday, as near as twelve inches.

Navarre. Gravity shifted beneath my feet. Isabeau’s lover, cursed to only see her at dawn and dusk. Doomed to love her but never touch her. Never hold her. Never make a real life together.

I would rather spend a week with you than a lifetime with him.

left waiting for someone I loved, only to realize I was never their priority.

But existing isn’t the same as living.

“It was time.”

yo, if this motherfucking plane crashes…