Rush (City Lights Series, #3)

by Emma Scott

It’s amazing how you can feel so lonely without ever being alone.

“I love that when it’s played right, the violin sounds as if the player’s soul is singing.”

“What does he need?” He smiled sadly. “Someone who stays.”

But people occupy certain places in one’s heart, and to try to cram them in somewhere else only causes misery in the long run.

An ache clenched my heart so hard I nearly gasped. Companionship. Someone in my space, touching me, talking to me, just sitting next to me and sharing a meal, as if I were whole.

“You deserve more than what’s left of me.”

My future with Charlotte, I realized, was the last undiscovered country I would ever travel.

kiss. “Until you, I was lost. Sometimes, you’re the only thing that ever feels real to me.”

“I’m going to find you, Charlotte. I’m going to come back to you as the man you deserve. Whole. Don’t say goodbye to me. Wait for me. Please. It’s the last thing I’ll ever ask of you. Wait for me. Trust me. I will come back to you. I swear it. Okay?”

“I love you, Charlotte,” he said brokenly. “I love you more than my own self, and that’s the only reason I can walk out that door tonight.”

“A last wish I’m afraid won’t ever fade. I’ve made peace with my blindness, but if I could see just once more—just one thing in this world—it would be you. I would only need a second. One second, and I would hold the image of you in my heart forever.”

“I love you, Noah. With my heart and my soul and this body. With every part of me. I love you so much you don’t have to see it. You can feel it.” I swallowed hard and moved his hand lower and pressed his long fingers between my legs. “Do you feel it?” I breathed, brushed my lips against his. “Do you feel what you do to me?”

saw it, Charlotte,” I whisper. “I saw it all.”

“You’re radiant, Charlotte. They said that about you on our wedding day and now again that you’re pregnant, but you’ve always been radiant. And the first time I saw that beauty under my hands, I felt how I feel when opening a brand-new book. Do you know how that is? Where you only need to read the first few pages and you’re already thinking, ‘This might be a good one. One of the best ones. One of the rare finds that stays with you forever.’” A soft smile found his lips. “That’s how I felt, but I was far too bottled up and ready to explode to ever say something like that.”