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Prologue

JUST BECAUSE I’M telling you this story doesn’tyou this froardless of how it ends, I’, back to where it all started

This isn’t your typical love story

Okay, irl, they fall in love and live happily ever after The things is, o as planned

Thank God for second chances

It all happened in the blink of an eye and, for ht Maybe you’ll think it happened too fast, that falling in love again doesn’t happen like this

I’m here to tell you it absolutely does

It happens when you least expect it, when you realize that a part of your heart and soul always remained in the hands of another

It happens when your past collides with your present and shapes your future

We found our way back to one another, so it was easy to fool ourselves into believing that time was on our side

Tiain

Time to fall in love

Tiether

The thing about ti you hate and it flies faster than the speed of light when you’re doing so you love Time is a fickle bitch

I wish I could tell you that this story has a happy ending, but I don’t know the answer to that right now So much has happened so quickly that it all kind of feels like a dreale second of it—the good and the bad

God, I hope it wasn’t a drea I’ve ever wanted more than forever with him

I pray we make it out alive in the end, but even if we don’t…

Those seventeen days…

Those last seventeen breaths…

Hell, even those seventeen miserable years…

I wouldn’t change any of it for the world if the endgame is him

Everything happens for a reason, but sometimes you don’t knohat that reason is until it’s too late

Please don’t let it be too late

Chapter 1—Set Fire to the Rain