Addicted to You (Addicted, #1)

by Krista Ritchie

It just so happens that my appetite is a sexual one.

Unless we want to say goodbye to our luxuries from our inherited wealth, we have to pretend to be together.

Me, bedding any guy. Him, drinking all of the time.

“I love you, but I want to love you enough that I never choose alcohol over you. Not even for a moment. I want to be someone you deserve. Who helps you rather than enables you, and I can’t begin to do that until I get help for myself.”

He hit his rock bottom. Have I hit mine?

Lo has been sober for a full week.

I want that to be us. I want to grow old and yell at Lo for dribbling coffee. I want him to be my forever. For the first time, he may be on the right path towards reaching that. I can only hope I’ll join him too.

“I’ll always be yours. No distance or time apart will change that, Lily. You need to believe that.”

“Wait for me.” The words come out choked and pained. “I need you to wait for me.”

Someone put him up to this. I glance over my shoulder, and Rose has her hand over her mouth, her eyes wide. I look at Ryke, and his hard gaze says nothing. This was Lo’s idea.

He knew the only way for me to truly fight is if I have ...