Page 127 of Heart Break Her

“I’m still working through shit,” Sebastian says.

“Me too.”

“But…” He pulls me in closer, and his mouth is hovering so close I can feel how desperate his breaths are on my lips. “I don’t want to do it without you anymore. It might be unfair and selfish, but I don’t care right now. I’m working on things. I’m talking to a shrink. I’m sober. My head is clear, and I finally know I’m not imagining it.”

My eyebrows pinch. “Imagining what?”

“Being in love with you.”

Those words kick the air from my chest. I’ve tried really hard to tell myself not to feel that very thing. That it won’t be reciprocated, and I’ll just hurt more. With one statement, Sebastian has pulled his heart out and handed it to me.

“You—”

Sebastian nods. “What do you think of that?”

So, so many things. It makes my head airy, and my limbs might as well be floating. If it weren’t for his hands holding mine, I might float away.

I can’t hold back my smile as I press closer to him. “What do I think?”

He nods, looking nervous all of a sudden.

“My mom used to say everything on earth was formed from the heart of a star,” I say, tracing his palms with my thumbs. “That when the universe formed, stardust scattered. Pieces floating aimlessly before coming back together and forming new elements and beings. That in the beginning, we were all something else, something that changed and had to fight to be whole again.”

“And you think we’re the pieces?”

I shake my head. “No, I think we’re finally on the other side. We’re the heart of the star coming back together as something different.”

He brings his hand to my jaw and holds it. “I like that.”

“I was afraid we were two broken people trying to fix the cracks in each other. That the only reason you were drawn to me was because of this mutual void we shared. But once I was gone, I realized that wasn’t why I felt whole around you. It was because you saw me, therealme. You embraced her. You let me be her. And you made me better.”

“You make me better,” Sebastian grins. “But I’m not as good at words as you are, so I don’t have some metaphorical story about the universe to back it up.”

I smile and wrap my arms around Sebastian’s broad shoulders, finding the perfect cracks in which they belong.

“Sebastian?”

He leans in, his mouth a breath from mine. “Yeah?”

“I love you too.”

He catches my mouth with his kiss. Stronger, deeper than anything I’ve ever felt. And in our kiss, he’s not Sebastian Kane, a rock god, and I’m not Cassie Walker, the girl with the pink hair.

He’s mine.

And I’m his.

Epilogue

Cassie

Four Months Later

Borismeetsmeatthe airport with a sign that says LADY SUNSHINE on it. No doubt Sebastian’s doing.

He wanted to be here to pick me up himself, but the band is finishing recording the last track of the new album, and I told him that he should just stay and get it done so we can spend the rest of the week naked without Eloise interrupting us.

Apparently, that was enough of an incentive for him. He might be missing me from afar this past week, texting me multiple times a day, but there’s no way he’s willing to sacrifice time with me now that I’m back in town—ready to go on tour with him.

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