Fall I Want (Cozy Creek Collection Book 1)

by Lyra Parish

I’m not afraid of falling in love. My biggest fear is being alone. I’ve learned that if I don’t give anyone a chance, then they can’t leave me.

Broken people break people, and I don't want to do that to her or anyone.

For once, I want to live and experience the life I’ve missed out on. I have to stop mourning a life I’ve never had and change the one I have. I crave things money can’t buy—happiness and true love.

Mornings aren’t my favorite, but I’ve learned to appreciate them. There’s something beautiful about experiencing the stillness before the flowers bloom and birds start chirping. It’s proof of new beginnings.

He reads me like a book and memorizes each page.

“I want you to want me, and just me, not the idea of erasing someone else.”

fell for you like raindrops fall from the sky.

Before you, I’d given up hope. I no longer believed in fairy tales or that happily ever afters existed. The world was a dark place once, where I was only surviving. Before you, I didn’t understand what it was like to be comfortable, to be myself, or to have true friendship in a relationship. An incredible, awe-inspiring man once told me, “To be known is to be loved.”

“To be known is to be loved,” I say. “Thankfully, I have you memorized.”