For Always (Now & Always Duet #2)

by Amanda Bentley

This one's for the badasses who've ever felt like they needed someone. How great did it feel when you realized you didn't?

His desolate face fades from view as the car drives further away, then turns left.

It’s one of the few times I feel alive. Until I met her. Until I was buried deep in her pussy, when every inch of my bones sparked to life. I was more alive than I’d ever been. But I wasn’t in control at all. Each time after, being near her was enough to feel that spark again, to feel just as alive and out of control. That terrified me.

“Kate!” I shouted, knowing damn well the car wouldn’t stop but unable to restrain myself.

I don’t know what else to do. There’s nothing else I can do. I can’t explain the truth to her. I can’t leave this all behind. She knows. She knows. She knows.

I crumple to the ground with my face in my bloody, throbbing hands and those wretched sobs wreak my body once more, the sound mingling with the distant party as the world goes on.

Even though I knew it was always just for then, I wanted it to be for always. And the fact that this was the reason for our end is the part that hurts the most.

I was always a shell of a man, but now I have no form. I’m lifeless.

“In the darkness, seek the stars. You may not see them, but they are always there for you.”

He was completely fine with using me for this ‘greater good’!”

But no one needs a third-act breakup, so try to make a choice and stick to it.”

You became the light and gave me a reason to live. The moon for this turtle to follow.”

“There is no heaven or hell where I deserve you.

“You’ll never lose me. You have me, for now and for always.”

“In the darkness, seek the stars. You may not see them, but they are always there for you,”

“It wasn’t the stars.” He faces me, his eyes filled with my favorite twinkle. “It was the moon.”