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“You’re going home, Bailey. I just received an order for your immediate release.”
“She said sometimes when a man goes to war, he has to make himself forget the people he leaves behind. It’s the only way he can become the warrior he needs to be to survive.”
I haven’t had sex in like, forever. I could really use some good dick.”
“Sometimes what we need is a place to fall apart. A place where we know our pieces will be safe while we work on putting them back together.” She patted my leg. “You’re safe here, Bear.”
There was a fine line between angry noises and sex noises, and he was walking it.
We hadn’t said our vows—hadn’t declared in front of family and friends that we’d be true in sickness and in health, in good times and in bad. But I’d kept those vows anyway, and I didn’t regret a single second of it. Because this was love. Messy, imperfect, painful love. And I wasn’t giving up without a fight.
She was the moon to my ocean. I couldn’t escape her gravity. But I was sure as hell fighting it. I had to.
“Are you positive you’re okay?” “Physically? Yes. Emotionally? I’ve been better.”
“Because I’m her best friend and if anyone tries to hurt her, I’ll murder them, dump the body, then lead the fucking search party.”
“You know how some people totally spoil and enable their children? That’s me. I’m people. I can’t stand the thought of you being unhappy, so I do whatever I have to do to make sure you’re not.”
“I’m not the one being all slutty and showing too much ankle. Hussy.”
“Maybe that’s not how love works. Nobody’s keeping score. I love you because I do. Because of who you were, and who you are now. Because something deep inside me is connected to something deep inside you. And whatever that is, I think it’s worth fighting for.”
“I want something sweet, but it isn’t pie.”
“I told you—when I couldn’t have you up here,” he said, tapping his head, “I kept you here.”
“That’s my girl,” he murmured.
a polite nod from his spot at the table. Grace’s siblings were all here, too. We spent
I wanted him to know he could share it with me. Soothe it with my body. That I was his and I always would be.
The thing about pain, whether it’s physical or not, it demands our attention. A lot of the time that’s as it should be. We move our hand away from a flame to avoid being burned, or we treat an injury so our body can heal. But when that pain doesn’t go away, and it’s not something we can easily fix, it starts to dominate our life. Add in a hefty dose of anger, especially anger at things you can’t change, and it’s easy to forget how to feel anything else.”
Together, we were unbreakable.
