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“Ready?” Steph asks. No, but I nod anyway. What else is there to do but grit my teeth and hold my head up high as I take things one day at a time?
I don’t hide the curve of my downward lips before Everett sees them. His eyes fill with sympathy. “Don’t worry, River. You’re still my number one.”
Whatever happened to you in the past doesn’t have to dictate your future. You’re safe now.”
I don’t want to relive those moments of pain and terror. Telling those stories would be setting myself back from all the progress I’ve made.
Everett Tucker doesn’t have to break my heart, because I broke it myself by loving him.
It’s funny how the heart can still hurt over something it has expected all along. But I guess that’s not entirely true. 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.
“Sometimes you meet that one person in your life who holds all of that love for you and then some.” But how could that be Everett to me? “Could those people hurt you?” He taps the edge of the table. “They’re the only ones who have the power to hurt us. But it’s only us who has the power to forgive.”
“I’m going to take you out,” I whisper, brushing my lips against her jaw, and trailing them toward her lips. “I’m going to buy you dinner, flowers, hold your hand, everything you deserve and then some.”
