Magnolia Parks (The Magnolia Parks Universe, #1)

by Jessa Hastings

maybe they’re what family actually is. Maybe they’re the ones who have been my family all along. Maybe it was these people who had raised me this whole time.

“I dunno—I can never tell if we’re dancing in a burning room or taking turns dragging the other unconscious up a mountain.” Tom sniffs a laugh, looks at me like I’m crazy. “Both pretty shit to be honest, man—” “Yeah,” I concede as I stare over at her. “One ends with a pretty good view though—”

Can you die from a broken heart, do you know? And if I did and they cut me wide open, would I bleed loving him? When they lift my heart out of my chest cavity to weigh it, does it weigh the same as his top lip? Is his name carved into my third rib to the left? Bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh. He’s killing me. Loving him is killing me too, and I’m afraid because how many loves really, do you get in a lifetime? How many chances do you give it before you let it go?