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I will forever be grateful to have you in my life. I wrote this book fast and I swear it’s because you trained me to. You write at the speed of lightning, and when we’re writing together I need to keep your speed, so you’re not waiting on me, lol! I love you so much, and I’m so thankful for our friendship, our random talks, our heartfelt ones, our laughs, and even our cries. Everyone needs a friend like you, you’re one in a million.
I love you, bestie!
Prologue
—Christian—
Now
“I fucking love you, Kinley, and you know it.”
“It’s not about loving me, Christian. I love you with everything I am, but sometimes … it’s just not enough. I can’t live like this anymore. It’s not fair to either of us.”
“I don’t give up on anything, Kins. Especially you.”
She sighed, bowing her head.
I couldn’t believe we were having this argument at my little sister’s wedding. She was marrying my best friend, and this was supposed to be their day. I thought … fuck, I didn’t know what I thought anymore.
How could we let life just get in the way of our love for each other?
We’d been together since we were fifteen. Married at twenty-four, and I knew she was the one I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. I wasn’t going to risk losing her for anything, so I asked her to marry me and never looked back.
Ten years ago, we were so in love.
So devoted.
So fucking consumed with each other.
Where did we go wrong?
With the most sincere, pained expression on her face, she coaxed, “I don’t want to be just another challenge or obstacle, something you don’t give up on, Christian.”
“You’re taking my words out of context, Kinley.”
“Am I? I haven’t been your priority in who knows how long.”
“That’s bullshit! I’m inside you making you come on my cock—”
“This isn’t about sex, Christian! This has nothing to do with that!”
“What the fuck? I give you everything! What more do you want from me?”
“You give me everything? You can’t be serious. You think I don’t realize how detached you are from me because I can’t—”
“We are not talking about this here,” I snarled in a low rumble. Gripping onto her arm, I dragged her ass to the back of the farmhouse on my sister’s property where the ceremony and reception were being held.
During the exchange of their vows, we watched my sister and my best friend’s new beginning while my world was crashing to a devastating end. And all I could do was sit there and stare at Kinley’s face, desperately trying to hold onto the good times, memories of our life together.
I could see in her bright green eyes that I’d loved for as long as I could remember, her thoughts reflected my own—remembering a time when we were the ones standing in front of our friends and family, vowing to be together for better or for worse. She still loved me.
I still loved her.
Yet none of it mattered anymore.
Life had passed us by in the blink of an eye. We were no longer those two crazy kids who thought we could take the world on together. Our love had been replaced with anger, our devotion began to crumble, and our lives started drifting apart.
But anything worth having is worth fighting for, right?
