From Hate, To Love: Dirty Letters by J.C. Lori

… Finding love behind enemy lines…
What good is someone else’s hero?
A doctor who breaks your heart?
A friend who doesn’t want to be more than just friends?
I’ll tell you what they’re good for — two things and two things only: loving and hating!
What good is it being close to someone who’s so far away?
…I could write it in a letter…
I’d been alone for long enough that I didn’t need the hope Landon Jones gave me — I got used to the darkness — but when he lit up his lighter and told me it was a firefly, I fell for him hook-line-and-sinker.
That was my fault. I wouldn’t make the same mistake twice.
I had a future, with or without him. I had responsibilities, with or without him…
But when he got deployed, everything started to fall apart….
You know what the worst thing about hope is, right?
It’s that once it’s pulled out from under you, you can never go back to the way things were…
That man tossed me a bouquet of hope and then burned it to ashes right in front of my eyes.
If he hadn’t entrusted me with something so precious, I would’ve been gone…
…. but I had to stay.
I HAD to send him those letters…
And I HAD to curse him out; he was ruining my life and I wanted him to know it!
There’s no coming back from that… right?