Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2)

by Lucy Score

“Talk to yourself like you’re your own best friend and those other voices will leave you alone.”

And when those soft, soft lips found his, he heard music.

His body revved to life like it had been waiting for this exact moment, this exact kiss, to finally, finally live.

“The thing about a scar?” Gloria continued. “It means we’re healing. It means we’re survivors. What you don’t like is that you have to do your healing in front of everyone. Everyone gets a front row seat to your pain and your healing, and that’s what you hate.”

I’m still alive, but I’m just going through the motions. Life goes on all around you, but you’re left…” “Sitting in your own pain,”

She brightened for him like the sun, and he vowed to do that again and again

“I’m prepared to be whatever you need,”

“Silence keeps it too powerful,” she recited. “Or at least, that’s what my therapist says. Keeping it a secret that no one else knows gives it this unholy strength. But talking about it? It’s ugly and hard, but it takes the power away.”

But he’s waking up feelings that I didn’t know I was capable of. Feelings I don’t know if it’s smart to feel. But I feel…good.

You choose a man—or woman—who will grow and change with you. Who will support you as you grow and change, not force you to stay the same.”