Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

by Abby Jimenez

world where you can choose anger or empathy, always choose empathy,

“I don’t think you’re a horrible person. I think you went through something horrible and that’s who you needed to become to get through it.”

Not everything that comes out of crisis is bad. Sometimes your traumas are the reason you know how to help.

“What are you thinking?” I asked. He didn’t answer for a long moment. When he did, he did it with his eyes closed. “All I ever think about is you.”

“You’re not asking too much,” he said. “You were just asking the wrong person. Ask me instead.”

She wasn’t my burden anymore and I hadn’t even realized how heavy she’d been for me to carry because I’d done it for so long. I finally set her down.