Couldn't Do It Without You Novels & Stories

I shook my head. "I don't think I can live without you.. Lauren."

The vulnerability, the hesitation—it was all there, and it made me want to protect him even more. “I… I don’t know what to say,” he admitted, finally lifting his gaze to meet mine. His eyes were wide, soft, and searching. “I… I didn’t know you felt like that.” “I never could tell you,” I said, running a hand through my hair in frustration. “I was too proud. Too stupid to admit it. And then, after high school… we just… drifted. And now, here we are, and I—” I paused, taking a deep breath. “I can’t imagine my life without you. Not now, not ever.”

I wouldn’t have Candido anymore and I couldn’t bear it. “I’ll do it!”

I could never. Unless it was done by someone else.

For staying. “I thought of leaving you before. I tried to distance myself from you. I thought life would be simpler if I left without you. However, now… following everything that has happen, after realizing everything you’ve done for me… I realized that I could never live without you. I need you in my life more than I’m willing to notice. Without you, Kael, I honestly can’t imagine where I would have discovered the strength to continue. To maintain this flame within me. To consider taking vengeance on my uncle, my aunt, and my cousins. You're the reason why I’m still here, alive, without breaking down.”

and goddamn it—i needed him too.without him, i was nothing.and now i finally knew it.

And I realized something I wasn’t ready to admit out loud. Both of them were becoming impossible to live without.

"The mood was right that night. I just got caught up in it. Looking back, pinning my emotions to someone else's win or loss is pretty childish." My fingers curled around the doorframe until my knuckles turned white. The mood was right? He just got caught up in it? It was childish? The proposal I had treasured for four years, the single brightest moment in my life, had been reduced to those words that came out of his mouth. I had already known the truth, but hearing it spoken aloud in his own voice still hurt. "Come on, Reid. Brynn stood in line outside a store all night in the dead of winter just to get you that jersey." One of his friends sounded like he had heard enough.

I bared out my soul to her, laying my worries all on her lap. "It's so hard without you, Peach. Fuck, I am losing my mind." I let out a strangled sob, burning my face onto the back of her hand to muffle the sounds that emitted from me. This woman completed me. Utterly. Thoroughly. Completely. And without her, I was crumbling so hard. I didn't know who or what to be without her. She was my anchor and I was falling apart without her. My sanity was drifting away from me.

I need this. "It's hard to let you go D. We've been together for years and I have only been able to come and see you, you don't even know my house. If you leave, what would I do with my eating time? I…I can work it out, we can go together I…I don't think I can live without you."