Hope is my enemy. It’s worse than lies. It promises and it takes back. It teases and it rips my heart out.
He stills, and our eyes lock, his narrowing, holding mine captive. Run to me, not from me.
Great. I'm with the hottest man I've ever known and raccoons have crawled through my hair and settled under my eyes.
Focus on what you can control... Kow what you can bend to your will, and don't waste energy on what you can't.
Darkness surrounded me, a complete absence of light that left me shaking inside. No. It wasn’t the darkness that had me shaking. It was him. I could feel him, even if I could not see him. Oh yes, I co...
Consciously or not, greed and power are deadly partners.
Broken from the band Life-house fills the room, because Chris doesn’t know how personal it is to me. I’m falling apart. I’m barely breathing. I’m barely holding on to you. This song, this place with t...
Want the lies to end. I pull my gun from my purse and point it at him. Who are you to me, Kayden? Who am I? from Denial
Know I’ll never fully control her, and the very thing that would have made her wrong for me in the past is the very thing that makes her what I want and need now. She is freedom. She is passion. She i...
You will go there again. You will. I’m not about to pretend otherwise. It’s all or nothing, Chris. All the dark, hated places you go, you go with me. You have to trust me enough to love that part of y...
You do know Chris is thoroughly fucked-up, don’t you? My reply is instant, defensive. Protective. Aren’t we all? Not like Chris. I don’t ask how he knows. It could be the club. Maybe a friendship that...
Where I needed to go was where I ended up. I was shutting you out, like I shut everything out, and you pulled me back. You made me see what was important. What’s real. You made me see you. His lips br...
When I want something, I go after it. And baby, I want you, and all I can say is you might be smart to run before I get any more into you, but please don't.
What we need more than anything, Amy, is each other. I need you, baby. I need you alive and well, in my bed and in my life. The idea of losing you is torture, but I know you aren’t my property. You’re...
What do I have to do to convince you I’m the one you should run , not away from? Tell me and I’ll do it.
We just hold each other. Where I was once lost, he’s found me. But I know now that I have only begun to truly discover Chris. He’s still lost.
They don’t get to tell you who I am. His voice is a rough growl, low and tight. I do. I tell you and I show you, so you get the truth—not their fabrication of it. A muscle in his jaw flexes. Understan...
There’s a price for not taking care of yourself as you claim you do so well. His eyes lift to mine and there is mischief in their depths. I’ll have to punish you.I glower at his reference to how well...
There are three sides to every story. Mine, yours, and the truth. —Joe Massino CHAPTER
The past is a part of you and us. You can store it away someplace different, but you can't make it go away. And you can't even resolve it until you, we, face it.