Yearning For Her

by Tiffany Roberts

Because he never truly loved me. He loves what I can give him, loves that I do anything he needs. Loves that he gets to be in charge.

Because I desperately wanted someone to love me for once. To see me as enough.

Because you just wanted to feel like you mattered for once.

“I want love. The kind of love that doesn’t die. That keeps burning, on and on, and is so much bigger and brighter than any flame. The kind of love that only happens when two souls see each other and know they can’t exist without one another.”

“Show me. Teach me about mortal love. Teach me how to love you.”

He wanted to learn everything about her, body, mind, and soul. Wanted to hear every story she had to tell, wanted to know everything she found amusing, scary, exciting, disgusting, infuriating, and saddening. He wanted to know her completely—and wanted her to know him in return.

Love doesn’t come without pain. Sometimes, they really are one in the same.

could spend a hundred thousand years walking every realm and never find another soul as beautiful as yours.”

“Do you always think of sex?” Kian arched a brow. “No, I often think of sex. I always think of you.”

“Never, Willow,” he rasped. “You will never cease to be the most important thing in my universe. Even after the last spark of my soul fizzles out and there’s nothing left of me, you will be my everything.”

“Eternity is not nearly long enough a time to love you, but I will savor every fucking moment of it.”