Vice & Violet (Pacific Shores Book 4)

by Sarah A. Bailey

Because when she came back home, I wanted her to know that I waited to heal. Waited for her, because I’ve been determined to do it together.

Ugh Auggie :'(

“I want to run away from you and hold you closer at the same time. There are moments I wish I’d never met you, while painfully aware that I’d die without your existence.” My hand finds her jaw, thumb resting on her bottom lip and pulling it from her teeth. “I miss you even when I’m right next to you, and I loathe you when you’re far away. But one thing I always know for certain is that I’ll take you any way you come, any pain you cause, no matter how brief the moment, because simply experiencing you…it’s more valuable to me than the air I breathe.”

good god

If you hadn’t loved him, he wouldn’t magically still be here. The world doesn’t work like that, no matter how much you convince yourself it does. I don’t know the reason for all of it. Maybe I’ll find out when I die, or maybe I’ll never know at all, but for some reason he was meant to leave when he did. I think whatever force makes those types of decisions knew that already, and wanted to make sure he got to experience that kind of love before he went.” She inhales, breath picking up at my words. I lift her head away from my chest, grasping her face and turning her to face me. “Your love is a gift. To him. To me. I hate the reality where he left us, and I wish that he was here, but in every single reality that exists, it was meant to be you and me, Elena.”

wahhh