Stay With Me (Stay With Me Series Book 1)

“You stood before me, a memory,

but I was a stranger in your eyes.

Did you forget to remember

or remember to forget?”

—Oliver Masters

Ollie had surprised me; all I’d had to do was step outside my comfort zone, and it was scary as hell. I wondered if I would have appreciated his light if I hadn’t been through the dark. And the funny thing was, I would never know. But what I had learned was it wasn’t about what had happened in your past. It was how you let it affect you. There would be dark with the light, good with evil, lose with the win, and love with hate. How could you appreciate when you were up if you’d never felt the pain of the down? Each moment, beautiful or ugly, was never a wasted moment. Each moment was there to mold you: a lesson.

I accepted my past with my head held high, because it had led me here, and there wasn’t any other place I’d rather be.

Chemistry attracts two people together, comfort makes them stay.

This was precisely the reason why I never kissed anyone. In the end, it was the boy who would develop feelings and get hurt in the end.

I could almost see the thoughts repeating in his head as if they were white bubbles hovering over him like storm clouds. Was he going to blow up? Was he in denial? Was he self-destructing before my eyes? Had he already fallen for me after one stupid, drug-induced kiss?

But he didn’t take the drug

“There’s a fire within her,

golden embers in her eyes.

She makes me burn so deep

That just breathing hurts.”

—Oliver Masters

His warm hands gripped my bottom as we both unraveled, becoming each other’s oxygen. A dozen candles lit somewhere inside me, flickering against the wrath of Ollie Masters.

“Moments don’t go away,

they burry and become you.”

—Oliver Masters