After Rain Falls (River of Rain, #2)

by C.E. Ricci

It’s been weeks.

I don’t condone this

I’m just barely hanging on, hoping someone or something is able to either pull me away from the waves or push me completely under.

How can emptiness feel so heavy?

“This goes so much deeper than need and desire. The way I ache for you? It’s fucking toxic.”

I’m just glad to have someone objective looking in from the outside.

She is so not objective lol

“But why do you feel this need to protect me?

Rain just tell him you love him god damnit

“I might have you, but you own me. Every inch. Every thought. Every moment of every day, Abhainn. You own me.”

And I know now, we’re no longer an almost. We’re everything.

“In a shocking turn of events,” he states, sarcasm lacing his tone, “I lied.

Follow You’ by Bring Me The Horizon.”

Such a good song!!

“That Hoobastank song everyone and their mom knows.” I quirk a brow. “’The Reason’?”

Fair

Fuck, what if Roman was even in on this?

I would vomit

“And are you really so naive? Who do you think laced the cocaine that killed that friend of yours in the first place?”

Oh shiiiit

“I love you. Jesus fuck, I love you. You can’t leave me.”

And goddammit, as much as it tears me apart inside to see Rain like this, powerless in the face of fate and chance and destiny, a piece of me, however fucked it might be, selfishly feels hope. Hope for us.

Oh fuck right off

They say your life flashes before your eyes when you’re close to death. But they don’t tell you it also happens when the reason for you to live starts slipping through your grasp.

A flatline.

You better be lying

“You’ve belittled me and made me feel inferior for far too long. And I’m tired of it. I’m sick of feeling like I need to back down and respect you because you’re my father. It might be how I was raised, but respect isn’t something everyone deserves. It’s earned.”

PERIOD

His palm in mine, I squeeze it three times, keeping my eyes on him as I do.

Me and my hubby do this too

“And I swear to you, River. No matter what, I’ll follow you anywhere.”

God I got goosebumps

I watch through the giant cabin windows, hidden in the shadows of the winter forest surrounding me, as the love of my life asks another man to marry him.

What a fucking weirdo