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“You make me feel…not alone. And, Sparrow? I’ve been alone for basically as long as I’ve been breathing. But you? You make it all better.”
“Sparrow,” he croaked, “you were always too good for me anyway. It’s better this way.”
Kye was an invisible brand on my bones. Something I carried with me wherever I went, in whatever I did—even if no one ever knew.
Because it didn’t matter if it had been fourteen seconds or fourteen years, he’d always be the boy who’d given me everything.
“You can’t leave, Kyler. Promise me you won’t leave me.” I’d promised. And it was one I intended to keep. Even if I’d only ever have pieces of her. Those tiny shards were better than anything else.
Keely looked around the room. “What’s a dick stick?” Trace set down his knife and sighed. “Seriously? Keely’s teacher is already concerned because she suggested riding cowboys instead of horses on their field trip to the animal rescue.”
“It’s not because I don’t want to. I’ve been dreaming of you since I was sixteen. You’ve been my one spark of light in the hellish dark. The only good thing in my life. But I won’t risk losing you or the family you gave me. Because I’m sure of one thing: I’ll fuck this up. And I’m not ruining the only good in my life because of it.”
“Kye,” I rasped. “That’s my house.”
“When I lost you, lost what we were, I needed something to hold on to. I thought if I built the house, if I lived in it, I could still have you with me—the you that you were to me back then. But when they finished it a few years ago, it didn’t feel right…living here without you.”
“You’re my person. The spark in the shadows. You carried me through when I didn’t think I’d survive. So, I’m never going to stop demanding that this world give you everything.”
“You’ve had it all. Even if I didn’t tell a soul. You’ve always had it all.”
“I love you. I’ve always loved you.”

