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The Wylder brothers are like night and day. While Shayde is a calm, steady breeze. Rhodes is a storm strong enough to wipe out the world.
While Shayde seems like an easy-going romantic comedy, Rhodes is a thrilling romance with an emotionally devastating ending.
With Rhodes, I can see myself being lost. But with Shayde, I can se...
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The fiercest elemental is one who knows how to survive without their element.
“Don’t tell me that’s where you draw the line.”
“I’m starting to believe that I can’t draw a line when it comes to you,” his voice said in a sultry tone I had never heard.
the only person that’s ever made me want to start living again. I’ve been broken for so long that I don’t think my edges can be molded back together. But you, Scarlet, make me want to try. You are my light.”
Maybe life isn’t about fixing yourself so that you’re perfect on the surface. Maybe it’s about finding the ones who see you for who you are, see you for the darkness you’ve survived, and still choose to keep you anyway.
“Most people would have crumbled under what you’ve endured. They would have succumbed to the darkness, taken the easy way out. But you?” He cupped my face. “You are your very own savior. Your past isn’t your enemy. Your biggest enemy is yourself. Why do you insist on torturing yourself? It’s time to wake up from this nightmare you’re living in and recognize that you are a fucking warrior. You weren’t just freed of those iron shackles. You broke the damn chain that held you down.”
“And it is not the scars on the surface that prove that,” he said softly. “It is the scars within that show the fight in you.”
“It’s okay to not be okay.”
You are the only one in control of writing your story. You can’t rewrite the past, but you can start right now and choose to change the direction of your future. So keep fucking writing it. Because one day–” she sucked in a shallow breath, tears were forming in Laney’s eyes. “One day. Your story may be the survival guide for someone else who is fighting the same battles that you have, Scarlet Thorne. Don’t you ever walk through that darkness alone again. Because you have people in your life that will walk with you. People that would rather see your hell than to see your funeral.”
“What is this?” I whispered,
“This is me fighting for the girl.”
“Not everything that shatters has to stay broken, Scarlet.”
I want you to know that you can always take it out on me. No matter what it is, I’ll take all you’ve got.”
It is not my scars on the surface that prove the fight in me,” I declared to myself, my voice steady. “It’s the scars within.”
