After Everything (An Epistolary Novel)

Hikari spent years in a relationship where she had to beg for the love and attention that should've been freely given. She felt invisible, unheard, and alone. So when a new man came into her life and gave her exactly what she had long been pleading for, she thought it was something real.

They grew close, drifted apart, only to circle back to each other again and again, talking on and off like a cycle neither of them could break. Hikari believed their bond meant something... until she learned that she was only his backburner, the person he ran to when his real relationships fell apart.

And after everything he put her through, she still somehow believed him. She trusted his words over anyone else's. Until the moment Hikari finally saw things clearly: she was never truly in love with him. She was in love with how he made her feel when she was broken.

In the end, they weren't soulmates. They were each other's escape route-each other's getaway car, each other's backburner.