TERMS OF THE HEART
"You're allowed to feel small, Ivy. You don't have to have a plan for it right now. You're allowed to just be a person whose life got hard for reasons that weren't your fault."
I hadn't cried yet — not really, not the whole way through — since the photograph had arrived. It came now, quiet and unglamorous, snot and shaking shoulders and Damien Cole, billionaire, terror of Manhattan boardrooms, pulling me against his ruined suit jacket without a single word about how it would need dry cleaning.
"I'm sorry," I said, into his shoulder, muffled and stupid.
"Don't apologise for feeling something honest in my kitchen," he said, one hand moving slow and steady over my back. "It's the only room in t