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The first time I heard someone in town speak her name, it felt like the clouds had parted and sunlight was streaming down on me.
Memories of staring down an empty pantry as a child flooded me, and my alpha roared for me to go get her. Feed her. Love her.
I hated being perceived.
I wasn’t much for cardio, but I would run to the ends of the earth if I were following Olive.
Because what I actually wanted to say was, how about I follow you around at all times and implant a tracker under your skin just in case we ever get separated?
There was a slightly rusted bike leaning against the cottage, and I recognized it as the one I had learned to ride on.
Hey there??? What the fuck was that? And why was I waving like I’d only just discovered I had arms?
I could picture her leaping into the ocean and turning into a mermaid if she got overwhelmed. And I’d fucking follow her. Even if it meant drowning.
“Good girl.”
“If you suggest the Omega Overlords one more time…”
“Nothing,” I said, shaking my head. “I have no talents.” “Excellent,” Lucy said. “That is exactly the energy we need.”
“My Olive,”
“I’m literally here fixing your wiring for free.” “As you should,” Jo said.
Grief is the price we pay for love, and at some point along the way, it started feeling beautiful instead of ugly, like there’s something sacred in the midst of the agonizing pain.”
“I can feel it coming on. It’s like… it’s like being out in the middle of a still ocean and then, out of nowhere, a wave starts to build. There’s nothing you can do, no place you can go to hide. All you can do is brace yourself as it crashes down. The sadness is so overwhelming it’s like I’m drenched and gasping for air. No matter what I do, how hard I try, I can’t get dry or warm. Even though I know this has happened before, and all those times I somehow made it out of the storm, in that moment, it feels like forever.”
“And you should be happy, and to some degree, you are. But then you walk through your house and see the mess you’ve made and the bridges you’ve burned in your relationships, and it convinces you that this is all your life will ever be. You’re too much of a burden to those around you, and you wouldn’t want to subject them to the darkness anyway.”
“It’s a good thing I’m not afraid of the dark,” Easton said.
I don’t want to let my grief and my fear dictate my life decisions,
She simply braced her hands on my shoulders, kissed me on the lips, and sauntered away. Out of the theater.
My alphas turned to look at him while I prayed for the orchard to be hit by a meteorite. Or better yet, a black hole could open up underneath just me and take me out.
The bond was like golden strands sinking deep into my very soul. All his passion and enthusiasm and care for me. Fuck, his love was so extravagant.
“I waited for you for six years. I would wait a hundred years for you, search every corner of the earth. You’re mine, sweetheart. My soulmate, my everything, my Olive.”
“Because even if I lose you, it will have been worth it. Our love is worth it. You are worth it.”
“Oh, I’ve already moved most of my stuff,” Easton said,
facing your own pain and darkness with a brave stance and eyes wide open is one of the most courageous things you can do.
