Almost Always (Love In Wildes #6)

Prologue

PROLOGUE

09 · 02 · 2003

Daisy,

It’s been a week since you left. A week since I watched the car vanish into the horizon. I always believed that if you were going to be riding off into the sunset, it would be with me. I love your dad, but it should have been me.

I thought we’d have more time, that summer would never end. That I’d get to keep you by my side for the rest of eternity. Yet, you’re not here. I keep looking to my right to say something and find the space empty.

Fuck, I sound like such a sap. But that’s what you’ve done to me. We barely had enough time to figure out what this was before you left. Why did we wait so long? I should have said or done something years ago, I should have made my move. I kept convincing myself that you didn’t feel the same and I’d make everything so fucking awkward. If only I knew…

I fucking miss you, Hero.

I also didn’t get a chance to tell you something: I love you.

I hope that I get to look into your eyes and say that out loud one day. I don’t care how long it takes, I’m going to do everything to find my way back to you. Back into the circle of your arms and those soothing hugs, back to inhaling the lavender scent that clings to you every single day. Back to you.

Because with you is where I belong.

Always.

Love,

Rafferty