When It Ends

by Penelope Black

“I think falling in love at the end of the world would be tragic. Reckless, even.” A half-smile tilts up the corner of his mouth, the angles of his face highlighted in soft yellow light from behind me. His thumb ghosts the underside of my bottom lip. “Jump, Amelia. I’ll catch you.”

“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.

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