Reclaim (Release, #2)

by Aly Martinez

Choices. Everyone makes them. From mundane and monotonous to life-changing and unimaginable. But regardless what that choice may be, life is lived in the consequences.

“Yeah, but I’m a girl. I’m not allowed to play football or pee standing up, but every now and then, it pays off.”

But when the bitter chill of reality is all you’ve ever known, you learn to hold on with both hands to whatever warmth you can find.

I’d spent many nights raging at the unfairness of finding my soul mate in a shattered girl I could never quite hold on to.

“Says the person who clearly hasn’t spent five years waiting for the woman they love to actually show up or reach out.”

“Why haven’t you ever been with anyone else?” His head popped up, his gaze incredulous. “Because I want you! Why is this such a difficult concept?”

“Five years, five hundred years—it doesn’t matter. I want you, Nora. In my life. In my bed. At my side. Any and every way I can have you. I only want you. I don’t care if it’s messy or complicated. I don’t care if you are still working through the shit-hand life dealt you. I don’t care how it comes or what it looks like. I only want you.”