When It Ends

by Penelope Black

“I’m saying all of these things have been laid out for years and years. And if we’re to believe it, next will be these big supercell storms, earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes, and eventually, volcanic eruptions.”

let her slip through my fingers all those years ago, and I’ll be damned if I let it happen a second time.

“Hey, Cher. You come here often?” His face splits into a boyish grin as he feeds me the same line from a few nights ago. My lips spread into a smile before I even think about it. “Is that the best you got, Sonny?”

“I think we have no idea what we’re capable of until we’re pushed to those limits.”

I still think it’s stupid as fuck to take two cars.

Be safe. And Gray?” Sonny looks from his phone to me. “Yeah?” “Don’t let anything touch her,” he practically growls. He holds my gaze and says, “With my life.”

“I'm gonna give you three seconds to get your fat, fucking fingers off of my cart and step away from my girl. Or I’m going to cut them off and shove them down your throat,”

The last thing I want to do is hurt her or break her trust, but she has to know that I’ll protect what’s mine. And make no mistake, Amelia Christensen is mine.

“You been reading those why choose novels again, Gray?”

“The San Andreas Fault has been activated, Amelia.”

“I think falling in love at the end of the world would be tragic. Reckless, even.”

“What if this is it? If this is when it ends?” Sonny smooths his thumb between my bunched brows. “Then I’ll find you in the next life.” “And in the one after that,” West vows. “In every life,” Cole promises.

It’s easier to swallow the concept of the possible destruction when I think of it like a play.

You make some hard choices because a bunker full of old men with room to spare ignoring fathers begging you to save their babies is wrong.

“In every lifetime, baby. I’ll find you in every single one, and I’ll never stop.”