More Than This (More Than, #1)

by Jay McLean

It’s at this moment that I know. I don’t just think it anymore—I know it. I love this girl. I’m in love with this girl.

believe in happily-ever-after.” She looks at me with so much emotion, I hope to hell that I’m reading her right—that the look she’s giving me is telling me everything I want to know. She believes in fate, in love—in us, forever.

“It’s just you. It’s only ever been just you. It will always only ever be just you.”

To have to be around the person you love, and not be able to love them, is the hardest thing to do.

But I can’t hate him, because he brought her to me.

I wish the world would leave me alone for just one minute, so I can gather the strength to get up and face it.

“I’m not who I want to be yet. I’m not ready to give him everything. I’m still broken, and I need to pick up the pieces of myself and put them back together. If I give myself to him, I have to be complete. I can’t be half the person I want to be.”

“Jake saw you at your worst. He was there when your life changed and your heart shattered. He was there to help you piece some of it back together. He’s seen it all, Micky. He’s seen you at your worst, and he still fell in love with you—like, truly the forever kind of love with you. And I’m sorry, because I think you’re making a mistake. Maybe you don’t need to be a complete person, or maybe you do. But maybe he’s it—maybe he’s the other half of you.”