Hattie fucking Rowley just rocked my goddamn world. And now I don’t think I’ll ever recover. This is it for me. I’ve reached the pinnacle. Nothing and no one will ever be better than her. That’s a shocking revelation because I’m still getting to know this girl, but fuck, I don’t ever want her to leave my life. Not when she made me . . . hell, she made me feel again. She’s made me realize what a heartbeat feels like again. A pulse. She’s made me breathe. Lifted my chin. Opened my eyes to the world around me when I’d done nothing but kept my head down since the moment my mom abandoned me.

