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

by Abby Jimenez

“It’s the only way I get to live somewhere that isn’t Wakan.

Know your worth, Daniel. I wish it had always been as easy to know mine.

I don’t know why she put up with it. She could do so much better.

Alexis made me want to be better.

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

It’s amazing how someone can touch you, even if you only know them for a moment in time. How they can change you, alter you indelibly.

“Nobody likes assholes,” I said quietly. “Sometimes that’s just what you think you deserve.”

“I believe you. I can handle anything you need to tell me. You don’t need to protect me from the truth and I’m here to help you in any way I can. It’s not your fault. And you don’t deserve it.”

All I could do was give her what I could. And that wasn’t enough.

It was always like this, the complete and total submersion into Daniel. It got me every time.

I wanted to be there for it. I wanted to help him and support him. But I wouldn’t get to. Everything about this made my heart hurt.

I couldn’t even breathe thinking about this being over. It woke me up at night, made me feel for her next to me to be sure she was still there.

I couldn’t say I could really fault him for chasing down things that could hurt him. I couldn’t stop doing it either.

“This hurts so much,” I said. “I can’t breathe without her. I just want it to stop.”

But what does love matter when it can’t outweigh the rest of it?

fell into one of those sleeps of the brokenhearted. The kind that breathes in and out, between here and gone. You want to dream about them but then regret it when you do, because waking up hurts too much. So you hope for nothing but black. The temporary reprieve from existing without them.

I think I did what I did because I could see you getting ready to leave me, and if I sabotaged the relationship, I was still in control of how you left.