Chapters (50)
- Cover
- Full Page Image
- Dedication
- Playlist
- Prologue
- Part One
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
- Twelve
- Thirteen
- Fourteen
- Fifteen
- Sixteen
- Part Two
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-One
- Twenty-Two
- Twenty-Three
- Twenty-Four
- Twenty-Five
- Twenty-Six
- Twenty-Seven
- Twenty-Eight
- Twenty-Nine
- Thirty
- Thirty-One
- Thirty-Two
- Thirty-Three
- Part Three
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Bonus Scene
- Marni’s Midnighters
- Spoiler Group
- About the Author
- Also by Marni Mann
- Sneak Peek of When Darkness Ends
- Sneak Peek of Even If It Hurts
I turned to look at his profile. “You normally don’t mention when you have a surprise in the works.”
He chuckled. “You’re right about that, but this one might take a little mental preparation on your end; therefore, I’m breaking my rule just this once.”
I reached for my glass on the table, taking a large gulp of the liquid courage. “If you tell me we’re jumping out of a plane, I might die.”
His laugh didn’t calm; it only got louder.
“Are you kidding?” I gasped. “That’s what we’re doing?”
“This is your place”—he kissed my lips before I had the chance to lick off the wine—“and the best way to see it is from far above, flying across its beauty in the sky.”
“Caleb Hunt, I’ve yet to say no to any of your adrenaline rushes, but the nurse side of me is telling me this is a horrible idea. I’ve worked in the ER, and I specialize in ortho/neuro, so I know what can happen when bodies hit the ground with major impact and—”
“Trust me,” he whispered, cutting me off. “You’re going to be fine, and you’re going to love every second of it.”
Twenty-Nine
“I literally can’t believe what I’m looking at right now,” Emily said as we shared her pillow, cuddled beneath the comforter on her bed, staring at my phone that I held high above our heads.
I’d been flipping through the pictures of the Napa trip and just arrived at our excursion through the sky.
“I mean, I know your texts said you went skydiving, but I honestly didn’t believe you. I needed proof, and now that I have it, I still can’t believe it.”
I gently slapped her arm with the back of my hand. “You know my unadventurous self wouldn’t lie.”
“Of course you wouldn’t; you don’t even know how. But good God, woman, Caleb has definitely brought out a wild side in you.”
“He’s taking me windsurfing next weekend.”
She knocked on my head like it was a door. “Um, is my best friend somewhere in there because I don’t see her anywhere?”
“I’ve needed this, Em.” I thought about the things I’d learned from my relationship with Caleb, and there was something so prominent every time we took an adventure. “He shows me what I’ve been missing all these years while I’ve been stuck at the hospital.”
“And he’s shown you how to actually start living, something you stopped doing when David died.”
It hurt to nod my head. “You’re right.” I sighed, lowering my cell onto the mattress. “He’s good for me.”
“Yes, he is, and I’ve never said that about anyone you’ve ever dated.”