THE TASTE OF ALMOST || SB19 IRMAY HYACINTH

• Dylan and Irmay •

"I wanted to stay.

God knows I did.

But how do you hold on to someone who doesn't even see you standing right there-still waiting, still wanting, still breaking?

And if you'd only allow me, I'd let myself be broken a thousand times more,

just to be with you in every shattered piece of me."

- Irmay

"I can't see you the way I see others, because you're beyond what the naked eye can understand. And maybe that's what scares me - that someone like you deserves more than the fragments left of me. I'm afraid to let go, not because I don't want to, but because I've lived too long breaking for others, I'm not sure I have anything left to give.

You deserve someone whole.

And I am everything but that - a collection of fears and half-healed wounds, pretending to be okay.

I wish I met you before I learned how to break."

- Dylan

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Disclosure

This novel is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, organizations, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or deceased, or to real events, is purely coincidental.

Furthermore, the story and its characters are not intended to represent, nor are they in any way related to, any real persons mentioned within the narrative.

- Heyaah_ King