Come Undone (The Cityscape, #1)

by Jessica Hawkins

“If you’d asked me years ago if a person’s own happiness was worth destroying many others’, I might’ve paused. But now, knowing my time here is limited . . . you can’t hide from your desires. You can suppress them, ignore them, maybe even kill them off. But they’ll stay buried and rotting inside you.” She drew back to look me in the eye. “What kind of person will that make you over time?”

I’d be a fool to pursue any of that. But after so many years of trying to keep every hair in place, and the sudden, growing feeling that I might be trapped . . . maybe foolishness was the only way out.

And I had kissed the wrong man. I had made the wrong choice. But when? Just now, or years ago? Was I living the wrong life?

“You’re always saying everything is fine, even though it’s not. It’s fine that you were attacked last night? It’s fine that you’re obviously experiencing some heavy, traumatic shit? Does anyone care enough to question whether or not you’re actually fine?”

“Choose me,” he said. “Walk through that door, and I promise I’ll spend every minute, every hour, every day proving you made the right choice.”