Hello Stranger

by Jade West

The glass is always half full in my world, even when there’s no water left to drink. After all, you still have the glass there ready for some more…

Reading time was the only time I ever truly allowed myself. The only time I slipped out of my own world into someone else’s and left the heaviness of mine behind.

I’d never belonged anywhere like I belonged in his arms, and I knew it. I felt it with every single scrap of my soul.

I was in love with her. I was in love with everything about her, even the things I didn’t know.

“Grief destroys people. Always has, always will. You can think you’ve prepared for a whole fucking decade, but losing someone you love is always going to put you on your knees.”

“You’d better be a good girl for me tonight, Chloe. I’m going to take every little bit of you and make you mine.” “I’m already yours,” I said back, still catching my breath.