The Upside of Falling

by Alex Light

I’d thought my love for romance novels would have died with my parents’ divorce. Instead, it made me crave them more. I was going through two books a week. I could not get enough. It was like, if love couldn’t exist in reality, at least it was alive in fiction.

“You’re the best girlfriend I never had, Becca Hart.”

“Because you go somewhere else when you read. I want to go there with you.”