Tied (All Torn Up #2)

by Carian Cole

I can almost believe this girl could love me, scars, damage, ugliness and all. And oh, how ferociously I would love her back if given the chance.

“I have scars, too,” she whispers with a shaky voice. Gently, I brush my knuckles across her cheek. “Show me,” I whisper back.

“Your heart is like a little hummingbird,” he breathes. “It was beating like this the day I found you…” He kisses the valley at the center of my chest, his tongue slowly sending a warm shiver up my spine. “I could feel it against my chest. It made me want to hold on to you forever.”

“I love you.” The sweetest, ragged, whispered words drift from his lips to my ears, and I wish I could bottle them up and keep them forever.

“And I would fall into that fire a thousand times to be able to save you.”

She’s everything. My past. My present. My future. My twin flame—the one who shares the path of my soul.

I’ve known that all along. I may be the hero, but I’m not the happily-ever-after.