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Less than twelve hours ago I belonged to the minty eyed boy I’ve loved since I was thirteen. But Everett Tucker isn’t mine to love.
I see you, River.
“Don’t worry, River. You’re still my number one.”
You’re safe now.”
“Believe me, River, if I had you, I’d have all of you. There’s not one piece of skin that I wouldn’t see, touch, or kiss.”
You deserve everything.
We haven’t been the same since she asked me to take her virginity, since I punched Asher Wilks for taking it, or since I saw her marred body. We’ll never be the same. After all, there was no peanut butter on her lip.
Because that’s what losing River will feel like; death.
Nineteen days without a single word spoken between us
felt like three weeks without everything that’s essential to me—sun, water, oxygen.
River James will always be mine, even if she doesn’t want to be. Even if she can’t be.
Bridgeport has the very thing I need and it’s sitting across from me right now.
“I’ve always been yours, River.”
“You were never mine.”
That he’s mine, even the deepest, most shattered part of him.
It’s funny how the heart can still hurt over something it has expected all along.
The truth about heartbreak is that there is no such thing. It’s your soul that shatters, along with every fiber of your being that screams for another person.
Home isn’t a place. It’s a person.
The cabin is my home. River is my home.
Stop crossing oceans for people who won’t even jump over puddles for you.”
“There are many kinds of loves out there, but it’s the real thing that’s hard to find, because it’s extremely rare,”
“Sometimes you meet that one person in your life who holds all of that love for you and then some.”
“They’re the only ones who have the power to hurt us. But it’s only us who has the power to forgive.”
“River will prove to us all how strong she really is,”
“And I will be there every step of the way, because we’re in this together.”
Everett Tucker breathed life back into me when I didn’t even believe that I deserved it.
maybe Jill brought you to us, so we could bring you to him.”
“Baby, I need you to find that strength. Don’t you dare leave before we get our chance at happiness.”
home to you.”
We survived loss.
We survived pain.
Our story is just beginning.”
“It started ten years ago. I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
