The Darkest Corner of the Heart (The Brightest Light #2)

by Lisina Coney

I didn’t have a father to protect me and play house with me, but I wasn’t alone by any means. I wasn’t lonely.

“Don’t call me Maddison. It sounds too preppy.” “I’ll call you Maddison for as long as you keep being a brat.”

It’s only now that I realize a haunting truth—Maddie Stevens, my twenty-one-year-old patient, has me wrapped around her little finger.

I smile at the memory of calling her a brat. Her brother might call her “princess,” and she might have grown up a little spoiled, but hell—I’d spoil her, too, if I could.

just like seventeen years ago, Pete Stevens slides his eyes away from me, the daughter he never wanted or loved, and drives away.

“For all that grouchy and intimidating exterior, you’re actually pretty cute.”

Nobody messes with you and lives to tell the tale, baby. Not while I’m here.”

“Then you’ll get to create a new dream.”

I want to be worthy of you more than anything else in this world.

You’re admirable in so many ways, I would lose my breath if I dared list them one by one.

it’s because of the way Sammy and Grace loved me and taught me that healthy, everlasting love is real, that I’m able to look at James right now and see our future unfold before my eyes.

“I love you. So fucking much. I will love you every moment until the day I take my last breath and all over again in my next life.”

“She’s it for me. We’ve found something special in each other, a home we never thought we would find in another person,

I can die happily, having confessed every truth in my heart to the most important person in Maddie’s life.

For the first time in twenty-one years, I feel like I’m exactly who and where I’m supposed to be.

I know for sure this is the life I was always meant to live. There’s no other place I would rather be, no man I would ever want to build a family with.

every significant and seemingly insignificant decision led me to the happiest, fullest version of myself.

Life is a constant battle of choices, and you won’t know if you’ve made the right one until you d...