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Maddox Coulter was still an asshole behind a pretty mask. And I was the stupid girl who fell in love with her best friend.
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
I knew he had my back. Always.
You’re literally bite-sized.”
“I won’t disrespect your grandparents like that.
His lips had tasted like… sin.
My sweet grandpa, even in his old age, he was fierce.
His deep voice rolled down my spine. “Don’t fall for me, Lila. I’ll break you.”
“Sweet dreams, Lila. I might visit you there.”
Hate kept me going. Rage kept me alive. It became the oxygen I breathed.
“You’re going to be okay, Maddox. I got you.”
“I solemnly swear not to be an asshole, but I’ll still think of sixty-nine ways of how I can dick you down every time you look at me or shake your ass my way.”
“Because I need
the world to know they can’t mess with what’s mine.”
I realized Maddox Coulter was a little bit ruined, a little bit messy, a little bit broken -- a beautiful disaster. Like me.
But he was the chaos to the perfect world I had built around me – a world where I kept my heart carefully guarded.
We had each other – she got me and I got her.
We balanced each other. She was the calm in my reckless life. I was the chaos in her peaceful one.
Lila was meant to hold my broken pieces together; just as I was meant to hold the shattered pieces of hers.
My father always told me to be with the person who makes your heart beat a thousand miles an hour,”
“Now, I have someone to lose, and I know it will break me. I know what it means to fear losing the person who means the most to you. That person has the power to destroy me.”
Pinky swear, me and you... forever.
Love was too simple of a word to describe it because love was black and white. Love or don’t love – there was not really an in-between. What we had… it was a kaleidoscope of colors.
Maddox and I against the whole world. Partners in crime and best friends.
“For fuck’s sake, woman! My only side chicks are your other personalities. And there are like twenty-five of them.”
back. I’m here, Maddox. I’m here, and I’m not leaving. Me and you, forever.
“If I love you, I give you the power to destroy me. I’m not strong enough for that. I can’t be just another girl to you, Maddox. I need to be more; I deserve more, and I don’t think you can give that. I can’t risk us and what we are. We’re beautiful… just like this. Friends.”
Lila was sunshine mixed with a little hurricane, and I was getting swept away.
“If there’s a God, He doesn’t want me to be happy. Maybe it’s my fault because I pushed you into the arms of another man. But He won’t let me have you even though I begged him to let me love you freely. I can’t remember the last time I asked Him for something. I guess... I’m not meant to have what I want. My parents. A family. You. You. You,”
