nataliawis
IF YOU LOVE ANOTHER LOVE BY TOM ODELL, YOU HAVE TO READ THIS.
Theo would love her if he had anything left to love with.
Once, he was the boy behind the piano - writing the songs, shaping the sound, staying quiet, stepping back, giving more.
Always more.
More patience. More forgiveness. More of himself.
He loved a woman the world could not stop watching, and he loved her the only way he knew how: by becoming useful. By being the hands behind her voice, the silence beneath her spotlight, the person who could be taken from again and again and still call it devotion.
Until giving became instinct.
Until he no longer knew the difference between being loved and being needed.
Then she left him.
Took the music with her.
Now Theo lives above a second-hand music shop in London, surrounded by old instruments. He sleeps on the couch and forgets to eat. He flinches at songs on the radio. He counts the exact time since someone walked away with the part of him that still knew how to feel.
He tells everyone he is fine.
He is very good at lying quietly.
Then Valeria walks in out of the rain with a violin case, a sharp mouth, and eyes that make it impossible to disappear comfortably.
She is not there to save him.
But she makes him feel something.
And for Theo, that may be the most terrifying thing of all.
Because what do you give to someone who deserves softness, when all you have left are sharp edges?
Then Theo's past comes back as an album.
His melodies. His lyrics. His pain.
Released into the world by the woman who broke him.
While everyone else falls in love with the wrong version of his story, Theo must face the truth he has been running from: Nicole did not only steal his music.
She taught him to give until he disappeared.
After giving everything to the wrong person...
is there anything left in him that can still love?
Some hearts do not turn cold because they cannot love.
They turn cold because they loved until there was nothing left to burn.