Failed Future (Air Awakens: Vortex Chronicles, #3)

by Elise Kova

People I love… Love… She loved him. Her heart felt like it had just shattered into a thousand pieces only to have them all start beating in unison—a chorus that sang for Taavin alone.

“Maybe we’re

meant to hurt and be hurt. Maybe we’re just meant to burn.”

“Fine,” he breathed. “If we’re meant to burn, then we burn together.”

“Perhaps you’re right about us burning together, because only you can set me on fire.” Vi leaned forward,

“I need you to accept that this, however perfect it can feel, isn’t. I want you to stay with me despite that fact. Stay with me because it is messy, and raw, and something we need but may also be terrified to want.”

“Everything.” There was no hesitation. No holding back. “She is everything.”

She loved him. And he loved her… despite both of them knowing better. Despite neither being brave

enough to say it in such plain terms. Those facts made no difference in the end. They had fallen in love despite themselves. They just had yet to be brave enough to say it aloud.

“Some emotions are as sharp as knives that don’t dull or rust with time.”

“Should you want it… allow my arms to be your home. Here is home. Because, as I told you once, here is where you are safe.”

Imperfection fit them both well. Maybe life had carved enough parts out of each of them that they needed each other to feel whole.