Irresistibly Broken (Irresistibly Yours, #1)

by J. Saman

My therapist when I was a kid used to say that life happens no matter what and ninety percent of that is out of our control. What is in our control is how we choose to respond to it.

Everyone reacts differently to loss, but true loss affects everyone the same way. That’s why it’s so hard to get over. Because once you lose someone, they take some of you with them. You’re never quite whole again and the rest of you is constantly trying to compensate for that missing piece.

“I’ll never be done with you. I’ll get never get enough. For you, I’ll keep treading water. Till my muscles burn and my lungs scream and even then I’ll keep going. You deserve the world, Aurelia, and there is nothing more I want than to be the one to give it to you.”