15-05-2021-052358It-Ends-with-Us

Allysa hops off the counter and carries her mug to the sink. “She’s my friend, Ryle. You don’t have the best track record when i ...

I don’t hide my grin this time. “Okay.” He kisses me again, this time for a solid minute. He starts to lower me to the couch, bu ...

Chapter Eight “We need to talk,” Lucy says. She’s sitting on the couch, mascara streaked down her cheeks. Oh, shit. I drop my pu ...

What’s even better, is when I do decide to have sex with Ryle, we can have it over here all the time and not have to worry about ...

don’t really know anything about him or why he doesn’t have a place to live. I would just ask him, but I’m not sure if he really ...

Atlas is the first friend I’ve ever had that’s ever been inside my house. He’s also the first friend to know how much I like to ...

“It grew on its own,” I said. “Most plants do need a lot of care to survive. But some things, like trees, are strong enough to d ...

After a few minutes, we were both lying on the ground, breathing hard, still laughing. He finally stood up and pulled me to my f ...

works two miles from here, so he’s always home right after five. We have a garage, but only one car can fit in it because of all ...

Then I wasn’t. I don’t really know what happened, but I’m guessing he threw me off of him. I just remembered one second I was on ...

what happened yesterday and then I was feeling so guilty that I forgot to take him blankets and it all hit me right there on the ...

He twisted his arm around so I could see that it was on the other side, too. “I used to fall a lot, too, Lily.” Then he pulled h ...

room, I saw his stuff in one of the corners. His backpack, plus the backpack I’d given him. There was a little pile of other stu ...

He took a deep breath like he didn’t want to tell me any more. But then he started talking again. “I’ve been staying with a frie ...

whispering when I said, “Why in the heck would you want to serve a country that has allowed you to end up in this kind of situat ...

And people like my father are the problem. Instead of helping others, people use the worst-case scenarios to excuse their own se ...

Chapter Nine I drop the journal on my chest. I’m surprised to feel tears running down my cheeks. Every time I pick up this journ ...

He shakes his head as he wrestles out of his jacket, so I skip the kitchen and head for the bedroom. He follows me, and then thr ...

lotion on my hand and then pull his arm to my lap. He opens his eyes and looks up at me. “What are you doing?” he mumbles. “Shh. ...

His mouth is fierce and needy, kissing me everywhere he can reach. I grow so dizzy, I can do nothing but succumb to him. He’s un ...