Left of Forever (Spunes, OR, #2)

by Tarah DeWitt

I’d learn how love could change; how it could grow from friendship into more, into something that felt infinite. Love could be loud and supernova hot, and something soothing and quiet, too. Love could be miraculous and fulfilling. It could make you believe things would always work out for the best, because love really could conquer all. Love could burrow into the loneliest places in your heart, but its absence would leave bigger, misshapen holes that are impossible to fill. I’d learn how love could give you things you never dreamed of having, then trick you into wanting more.

“In the words of the great Dolly Parton,” he’d said ominously, voice choked with emotion, “treat every day like it’s raining, and always wear your rubbers.”