Magnolia Parks: Into the Dark (Magnolia Parks Universe, #5)

by Jessa Hastings

How many loves do you get in a lifetime? Fuck. It’s undeniable now, isn’t it—? I’ve had too

many. None of them are the same, none have felt the same, and all of them I

loved incredibly differently. BJ, I love in an unquestionable way. I love...

Blinding, bright, unbridled, unavoidable. He’s the thing that susta...

He drives the currents of me, he dictates the climates and the seaso...

on my face, and when he’s gone, it’s colder. He is the centre of everything...

is loyal to him a...

But you see, the thing about stars is that in another galaxy, that star is also a sun.

“If it wasn’t him, it would be you,” I tell him, for better and for worse.

He blows some more air out of his mouth and catches my eye. “In ...

I nod and offer him a weak smile. “I’ll m...

She’s the only home I’ve ever been interested in having. Her body is the walls, heart’s the

ceiling. I’ll live here forever.

“Imagine doing something once, one time, when you were twenty and fucked up,

and then every time, every chance everyone around you gets, people roll that mistake out in

front of you like it’s a fucking carpet that you ...

But it’s not just me ...

walk it—it’s my mum, it’s my grandma, it’s my fiancée. Do you know wha...

time there’s a fake story about me and some fucking model I’ve nev...

print a story about how I got some girl pregnant when we were at school? ...

real. I know to you lot, she’s this, like, far away abstract idea of a person, bu...

“I love you, Parks. I love you and I want to be with you—I would do anything to be with you.”

A love like ours—you drown in it, fill up your lungs with it, choke on it and cough it up as

you lay there dying. There’s a violence to loving someone sometimes.

BJ has fought for my honour a hundred times and he will a hundred mo...

he loves me and that’s what you do when yo...