SILAS' POV
"Silas, what does love look like to you?"
"It’s something you fight for. Something that consumes you. If it’s not messy, it’s not real. That if you are not constantly proving yourself, it isn’t worth anything."
"Do you ever feel… enough?"
"No..."
"Love should not be something you survive. It should be something that makes you feel safe. You have to stop fighting and start learning how to love without fear. Because love isn’t a war, Silas."
Jade’s fingers moved through my hair, slow and steady, like she was soothing a storm she couldn’t see but knew was there. The weight of her touch made my eyelids heavy, my body instinctively relaxed into her warmth. She felt like home. And for the first time in my life, I wanted to fix us for real. I wanted to unlearn the instinct to
