Begging for It (Asking for It, #2)

by Lilah Pace

“You don’t get to make me whole,” I say. “You have to take me as I am, or we’re lost.”

Having a new baby might be one of the greatest joys human beings can experience, but from what I can see, it’s also completely fucking exhausting.

You have no idea.

Sometimes we can’t pull away from the ones who have hurt us, any more than we can from the ones who have loved us. And when they’re the same person—that’s the hardest of all.