Destroy Me (Shatter Me, #1.5)

by Tahereh Mafi

What a beautiful disaster.

I should’ve been paying closer attention to details. To my soldiers. I lost sight of my purpose and my greater goal; the entire reason I brought her on base. I was stupid. Careless. But the truth is, I was distracted. By her.

This girl is destroying me.

A girl who has spent the last year in an insane asylum. A girl who would try to shoot me dead for kissing her. A girl who ran off with another man just to get away from me. Of course this is the girl I would fall for. I close a hand over my mouth. I am losing my mind.

Because the truth is, I am nothing but a coward.