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PROLOGUE
This is not how my life was supposed to go.
Everything was planned.
Mapped out even.
This was not the happily ever after I was promised.
Luke was that promise. College was that promise.
But these broken promises are just a reminder that everything can change in a split second.
In a blink of an eye.
In an instant.
There have beenthree men in my life.
Riggs.
Pacey.
Luke.
One was my epic love.
The second was unrequited love on my part.
And the third was my promise of a happy ever after.
But the truth was,I had onlyreallyloved one of them; love felt too weak of a word to explain just how much my first love meant to me. I adored him.
What I had with Luke was what I thought I needed.
What I thought would help me heal.
But it turns out, I didn’t need him as much as I thought I did.
With Luke my world was merely gray with the odd speck of white. I existed, but I needed the kaleidoscope of colour. I needed to live.
And as much as he hurt me, he pushed me to my forever.
My first love broke me,my second destroyed everything, and my third… well.
With him I had everything, and without him, I had nothing.
Or so I thought.
CHAPTERONE
Aheavy sigh vibrates through me at my mom’s voice that floats through the speaker of my phone.
“I know mom, but Luke has so much going on with work, plus he has just begun filming his new movie,” I nibble on my bottom lip as I rest the phone to my shoulder and slip my oven mitts on. I hate disappointing her, I can hear it in her voice and it surges a pain deep inside of my chest, winding me.
“I understand that sweetheart, but this is the third Christmas that you haven’t come home,” I can hear the crack in her voice, I know me not returning home to Lovelock Bay has been hard on them, but my life is here now. “Me and your daddy really miss you,” she slips in and my heart stutters in my chest, a heavy ache prominent behind my rib cage.
“And I really miss you both too, but I can’t just up and leave mom, Luke needs me here.” It wasn’t a lie. I did really miss them.
