Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

by Abby Jimenez

Sometimes what you have to give is enough. Even if it’s a rock instead of a diamond.”

Because while it would have hurt me, it didn’t have the power yet to kill me. Now it did. I was in love with her.

She felt like the sun. Like she was the reason for everything. Like I’d always been waiting for her to get closer and bring me to life.

“I love you,” he whispered. “We are together. This isn’t over. And even if you leave, it won’t be over because you’ll take the love with you and it’ll bring you back.”

Love follows you. It goes where you go. It doesn’t know about social divides or distance or common sense. It doesn’t even stop when the person you love dies. It does what it wants.

I stayed quiet. She did love me. I knew that. I believed that. But what does love matter when it can’t outweigh the rest of it?

There’s something more final than forever. It’s never. Never is infinite.

I knew from experience that sometimes when the wake-up call is big enough, you do, in fact, wake up.

I wanted everyone to see me with the man I loved. Because I was proud to love him in front of my world.

Because sometimes family isn’t what you’re born into. Sometimes family is found. And I’d found mine in Wakan. I’d found mine in him.

“As. You. Wish.”