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Chapter 5 Eden
I clutch my chest as pain slashes through me. It’s so severe I lose my breath. So brutalizing…I swear I can actually feel my heart breaking into a million tiny pieces.
Like I’m dying slowly with every beat of the shattered organ.
And yet, if God were to offer me one final wish before my soul departs the earth—I know exactly what I’d wish for.
The same thing I’ve wished for every night for the past four years.
I’d wish for Cain Carter to love me the way I love him.
But I know now that will never happen…and it’s not because he doesn’t love me. It’s because he doesn’t love me in that way.
He doesn’t want to love me the way I love him.
Because he equates loving me with something sick and wrong.
An evil sin.
And deep down I know I should let him go and try to find a way to move on, but I can’t.
Because the fucked-up thing about love is—just because the person you love doesn’t love you back…it doesn’t stop you from loving them.
It only makes you love them even more, makes you hold on a little tighter…because your love is the only thing that still tethers you to him.
And if the thread were to snap. If the foundation you built were to ever crumble. You’re left with nothing.
Sometimes the only difference between love and obsession is a broken heart.