The Truth About Us (The Truth Duet #2)

by Aly Martinez

“I know I exist because for the four years before I met you and for the weeks since I lost you, I didn’t want to. My sole purpose for the last few years has been to make Thomas pay for what he did to Lisa—even before I knew who he was. I breathed because I had to. My heart beat because it had to. I put food in my body because I had to. But it was all just a means to an end. And then I met you. Cora, baby, one minute in that tiny-ass bathroom with you and I more than existed. I was alive again.”

“It is because you called me that. I was no one before I walked into your apartment. You made me Penn. And because of that, I’m fucking yours. So don’t you dare tell me you didn’t come back to me. You can be as pissed as you want, as hurt as you want, as bitter as you want, but you felt it, Cora. The same way I did. The same fucking way we have always felt it.”

“Different can be beautiful. We came from different worlds—I will give you that. But I lived in yours, and now, you’re going to live in mine. Because we belong together.”