Twice in a Blue Moon

by Christina Lauren

“I like him but—I don’t want to get my hopes up and start talking about what-ifs.” “Why not?” she asked. “It’s not like you won’t be disappointed regardless if nothing happens. I don’t know why people think permanent denial is better than temporary disappointment.”

“Do you want to live in the sun?” he asked quietly. “Or do you want to go back in the shadows?”

“To be bitter enemies, I’d have to give a shit.”

Ellen was so ready to be old when she was so young. Richard wouldn’t let her.”