Something Wilder

by Christina Lauren

She’d spent the first nineteen years of her life being tolerated and planned around, but here, with Leo, she was finally the center of someone’s world.

She wanted him there because Leo Grady was undeniably hers, the first hers she’d ever had.

only the stark recollection that he’d had the perfect love once and had pushed her away.

Finally, he was able to tell her: “Missing you was physically debilitating.”

“I love you,” he said in her dream. “I don’t think I ever stopped.”

Just because thoughts are loud or constant doesn’t mean they’re right.”