Revive Me, Part Two: The Affair (New Haven, #3)

by J.L. Seegars

To the daughters who were taught how to sacrifice but not how to live. May you find peace in this era of selfishness, power in the making of decisions that only serve you, and joy in everything in between.

“You’re the only person who’s ever known me.”

Transforming the bubble of air around me into a theater, where he’s an actor on stage and I’m the entirety of the audience, held captive in his hypnotic gaze.

“I don’t know how to let you go.” The statement is a half whisper, half laugh, but there’s nothing amusing about the way his jaw clenches after he says it. He shakes his head like he hates himself for speaking those words.

She has everything to do with everything. There’s not one aspect of my life, one single inch of my soul, that has been left untouched by my knowing her, loving her, losing her.

“Truth or dare, princess?” “Truth.” “Do you want to come up to my room with me?” “Yes.”

“Maybe they were cool with rushing because they didn’t have anything in front of them that was worth slowing down for, but I’d stop the world for you. I’d freeze time if it meant I would never run out of opportunities to look at you.”

“Do you know how desperate you have to be to wish for someone who destroyed you, to crave their presence even when you know it’s only going to cause you pain?”

“If I run are you going to chase me?” “I’d chase you to the ends of this Earth, Mallory.”

“Was I not desperate enough for you? Did I spend too much time being a person instead of your full-time ego stroker?”

“I have to go.” “I know. You always do.”