The Geographer's Map to Romance (Love's Academic #2)

by India Holton

Gabriel had learned better, quicker, than Devon and Amelia, perhaps because quiet had always been his natural instinct. He protected himself from the risk of needing comfort by expressing no more than a grumpy frown, even though in truth everything hurt, the whole noisy, itchy, crooked world, all the fucking time.

So much of her life had been about escaping, in dreams and books and out of windows, that she didn’t quite know how to stay.