He’d been the missing piece all along. I always thought maybe the empty spot in my heart had belonged to my mother. I’d never felt complete during my years with Jansen, and I’d written it off to the fact that I was grieving. But everything had changed since Niko and I had admitted our feelings for one another. That hole had gotten smaller. The loneliness that I’d often felt had gone away. I was the happiest I’d ever been, and happier than I’d ever thought possible.
