“I’ve never done anything in my twenty-four years of life that made me deserving of a blessing. But you, Aeris Relera, were a blessing in disguise. You make me a better person. You make my days worth living again. Living, okay? Before you, I was merely surviving. You saved me.” “No, Hayes. You’re the one who saved me. You took that broken girl from the bar and slowly put her back together. You taught me what it feels like to be loved—and that’s a lesson I’ll carry with me for the rest of my life.”
