Stolen Hearts: A Dark Best Friend's Older Brother Mafia Romance

She might not be a singer or a poet.

…but she’s every inch my muse

But he takes away the crushing anxiety. He makes the white noise shut up

“What are you so fucking afraid of, Castle?”

“I’ve always gotten the impression that Calliope Drakos is far stronger than most people give her credit for.”

That’s what living is for: living. The past can stay there, dead and buried.

But the future is ours.

Together

And there beside the rose bushes, on the edge of the world, with just her and I, I tell her I love her. I tell her I’ll always love her

A crush will crush you.

But love will lift you higher than you could’ve ever known

A crush might still be a disease. It might still be a cancer that poisons your heart and taints your blood until you think you’re going to lose yourself in the agony of it all.

But where I used to think it was incurable, I know now that I was wrong.

There is a cure.

Love

It’s going to be okay.

We’re going to be okay

And I’m the one taking her home, wrapping her in my arms, knowing damn well I’m never letting her go