“Trent has kept his promise. He makes me smile every day.”

“The officer asks me if I want to press charges against Trent and I glare at him like he’s grown an arm out of his ass.”

“I crave his presence, his body, his voice, his laugh, his everything.I need him.I need Trent.”

“I want to make you smile. For real. Always. We're going to go for dinners, and see movies, and walk on the beach. We'll go hang-gliding, or bungee jumping, or whatever you want to do. Whatever makes you smile and laugh more. Let me make you smile.”

“I'll make you whole again, Kacey. I promise you, I will.”

“There’s something different about him, and I don’t have to think hard to see it. Something about the way he takes over a room, the way he looks at me, like he has already identified and can disarm every one of my defense mechanisms with no effort, like he sees through them to the disaster lying beneath. And he wants it.”

“What’s wrong is that every morning and every night, I lie in bed wondering why you’re not beside me.”