Next To You: A Friends To Lovers Romance (The Next Series Book 2)

exhale all my love for you out into the ether, hoping you’ll feel it somehow.

what I’ve been doing in your absence as praying. You come into my thoughts so often that I had to do something productive to dismiss them.

it’s going to be you. It could only be you.”

You come into my thoughts so often that I had to do something productive to dismiss them. So whenever I think of you, I inhale for a long ten seconds, soaking in the moment, and then exhale all my love for you out into the ether, hoping you’ll feel it somehow.

I can only describe what I’ve been doing in your absence as praying. You come into my thoughts so often that I had to do something productive to dismiss them. So whenever I think of you, I inhale for a long ten seconds, soaking in the moment, and then exhale all my love for you out into the ether, hoping you’ll feel it somehow.

I hope he misses me the same way I miss him, but maybe a little less painfully. Not much less, though.

“I’m not sure. I still need time, but if I’m going to love anyone, if I’m going to face my fears, if I’m going to give my heart away, as worn and hardened as it may be… it’s going to be you. It could only be you.”

I’ve never wanted to jump forward in time before, but I’m desperate to take a glance six months into the future. Then maybe I could figure out what my next step should be.

In a parallel universe, one where grief hadn’t broken me, I could be with Matt. Easily.

“Yeah. It’s been quiet.”

“Here?”

“No, without you.”

I feel my cheeks warm. “I do talk a lot.”