The Distance Between Us (MAC Security Series) (Volume 3)

ADDICTION—NOUN The fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance or activity. I’m a strong woman. Or at least, I think I am. I used to be so sure about that. Escaping my suffocating childhood home with only a couple hundred bucks brought me here; to the man whose eyes were full of sadness and heartbreak. How can one person turn your world upside down and your heart inside out? I understood the arrangement: only to warm his bed at night. But then I wanted more, which was impossible considering I was competing with someone who didn’t exist. There was a time when I thought I could pull him out of his darkness, but now I know it’s unattainable since I slid there along with him courtesy of the pretty little pills. Relief and calm. That’s what they gave me, but they also destroyed everything I worked so hard to become. Now? Now it’s just me and them.