But you should know the love can wear away under the stress of being married. Someone you think you love now, you might start to hate when he couldn't take care of your children, it'd be even worse. Love doesn't always survive under those circumstances.

The Angeles air was quiet, and for a while I laid still, listening to the sound of Maxon breathing.

I remembered suddenly that Aspen had always been this way. He sacrificed sleep for me, he risked getting caught out after curfew for me, he scrounged together pennies for me. Aspen's generosity was harder to see because it wasn't as grand as Maxon's, but the heart behind what he gave was so much bigger.

Break my heart for what breaks yours. Everything I am for you kingdom's cause, as I walk from nothing to eternity.

You were the one who changed us when you left me in the tree house; and you keep thinking that if you push hard enough, you can make everything go back to before that moment. It doesn't work that way. Give me a chance to choose you.

And I know it's over, but it's the same way I felt when you broke up with me.

I let myself be sad. I let myself think of him.