We'd agreed when he left for the first time after my move, that we wouldn't go more than a month without seeing each other. It was long enough so that our reunions were the hottest thing in the universe, and not so long that we both turned into those lovesick morons that made us roll our eyes.
Love, at least our version of love, was little things. Intangible things. It was laughs and our three turtles named Mercury, Frank and Bumblebee. It was playing soccer at the park by our apartment, going for runs and trying to trip each other during them, and it was our video chats when we were on different continents. It was compromises and separation from each other, and in my case, from my family, the baboons and Laila.
But I loved him and for us to be together, it was nothing.
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Acknowledgments
To the greatest readers in the universe, thank you so much for your love and support. You all keep me going when I want to take a long walk off a short pier.
Thank you to my Bear, my mom and dad, Ale, Raul, Eddie, Isaac and Kaitlyn for keeping me sane. I’d also like to thank my Navarro and Letchford family for all their love.
Gabriella West and Dell Wilson—thank you for all your help in making RCM a finished product! Letitia Hasser with RBA Designs and Jeff Senter with Indie Formatting Services for doing all they do to make RCM better to look at than I ever could. A very big thank you to Lauren Abramo at Dystel & Goderich for helping me spread my work to audio. Amanda Brink, thank you for your never-ending friendship, patience and encouragement.
Last but never least, thank you to my two best friends on the planet, Dorian and Kaiser.
About the Author
Mariana Zapata lives in a small town in Colorado with her husband and two oversized children—her beloved Great Danes, Dorian and Kaiser. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, hiking, forcing kisses on her boys, or pretending to write.
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