The Gravity of Us (Elements, #4)

by Brittainy C. Cherry

Some love stories were meant to be forever, and others just for a season. What Mari had forgotten was that the love story between a mother and daughter was always there, even when the seasons changed.

Yet the truth of the matter was, sometimes the ones we loved most were the monsters that tucked us in at night.

In the shadows, heartbreak poisoned the love, twisting it into something darker, heavier, uglier. Heartbreak took love and mutilated it, humiliated it, scarred it. Heartbreak slowly began to freeze heartbeats that had once been so welcoming to love.

For a split second in time, I felt a little of her pain while she encountered my coldness, and neither one of us seemed to mind.

“So this is our happily ever after?” I asked softly against his lips. “No, my love, this is merely our chapter one.”