Addicted for Now (Addicted #3)

by Krista Ritchie

Fuck off. I love Loren Hale. I can’t live without him. However silly that may be, it is the undying truth. Even if he was with another girl. Even if we never could touch. I could not live without Lo. He is as much a part of me as the sun is a part of the sky, as the Earth is to the universe. I need him in order to wake up in the morning. I need him to feel whole.

Ryke lets out an incensed snort. “I thought Rose was making that fucking shit up.” “When you string together curse words, I go deaf a little in my right ear,” Connor tells him. “What was that?”

“Because I think she loves you more than she loves sex. And you love her more than you love alcohol, but you two just haven’t let yourselves believe it yet.”

Her mother concentrated on Daisy, on Rose, who could be more successful in other facets. But Lily—her worth centered on a guy. Me. And I think, somewhere in her head, she believed it herself. That she would never amount to anything more than pleasing other men. That she was destined for a life less than her sister’s.

Maybe…maybe we’re just not meant to have a happy ending. Maybe we don’t deserve it.

Ryke is probably worried that I resent him. He wished I wasn’t alive. But truth is, I kind of did too. Until I looked at Lily. Until I talked to her. I don’t think I could have survived this life without that girl.

Talking can be overrated.