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That’s the thing about losing a loved one. In one way or another, they stay with us forever. They’re never truly lost, never truly gone — as long as we choose to keep them alive in our hearts.
That’s what Mallory Scooter had been for me — hope.
It was like two magnets being held away from each other for years, finally being released and clashing together in the middle, touching for the first time, feeling what it’s like to be whole.
She’d taken a part of me, and given me a part of her, and now — without the other — neither of us would be the same again.
We were inevitable, me and him. And maybe we knew it from the start.
“You need a little color in here. And maybe a little mess, too.” “You volunteering to be that mess?”
“I see the first woman to steal my heart, and the only woman I ever want to keep it.”
“I wish so many things.” “What do you wish for most?” “You.”
Mallory pulled my lips to hers, and the way she kissed me was so desperate, so thick with need, I was sure I was her lifeline.
She was the spontaneous to my well planned, the art to my logic, the unexpected welcome to my day-to-day routine I didn’t even realize was suffocating me.
“Do you think there’s a universe that exists where you could be mine?” Her eyelids fluttered open, and she turned in my arms. Even in the dark, those blue eyes of hers shone, and she locked them on mine, one hand crawling up to frame my face, sliding back into my hair, pulling me closer, her lips brushing mine when she gave her answer. “Let’s make one.”
When we fell, we fell hard. When we loved, we loved with all we had. When we fought, we fought until we dropped. And when one of us was knocked down, the whole team stopped everything to get them back on their feet. That was the Becker way.
He looked at me like I was a priceless, one-of-a-kind, first edition of his favorite novel.
like the lotus flower born from the mud, we must embrace the darkest parts of ourselves to become our most beautiful selves.
“He looked at her the way I look at you,” I explained easily, moving her hair away from her face. “Like forever was sitting right there in her eyes.”
