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just like these fill my heart with love and hope. Two things I never thought I’d be blessed with.

It’s a fucking beautiful life.

She’s made it a beautiful life.

I never expected my life to be good, but I’ll never stop being grateful for the miracle it became.

And it all started because once upon a time, a golden-eyed girl moved next door to us.

And saved me.

Saved us.

Just by breathing love into us.

And They Lived Happily Ever After…

The End.

C.R. Jane’s Acknowledgements

And when you are young, they assume you know nothing…

As most of you know, I’m a huge fan of Taylor Swift. Ivy and I even joke that she is the Selena to my Taylor. She happened to come out with a new album as we were finishing the last part of the book. Of course Taylor nailed the essence of this book somehow. The idea a love found when you are young can actually be the love of your lifetime.

These characters shook me to my very core. Their story has haunted my thoughts. I was talking to my PA Caitlin and she told me that after reading this book, she hoped that readers would know that a love like that could exist and that they deserved that kind of love. I love that. We read these stories as a kind of escape a lot of times, but I hope you know that you deserve the kind of can’t eat, can’t breathe, world series kind of love that we tried to capture in this book.

I promise you do.

To Ivy: Writing with you has been a dream. I love how we just got each other, everything flowed so effortlessly it was like we were sharing the same brain. I’m so excited for the future we have planned. You are such a talented, darling, incredible person and I love you to the moon and back.

To Caitlin: Is it getting repetitive to thank you over and over again for being such an amazing person? No? Ok, I’ll continue then. Thanks for being my confidant, and my support. Thanks for always being on my side and watching my back. I adore you.

To Summer: Not sure how I got so lucky that you reached out to me but your friendship has been perfection babe. Thanks for believing in me and supporting me. You are amazing (and you have eyes like a hawk because you find everything haha). A huge thank you to you.

To Heather and Meghan: Thank you as always for the care you put into my book babies. Thanks for meeting my crazy deadlines and never laughing at me to my face that I’ve asked for a 24-48 hour turnaround. Working with you guys is a dream. Love you both!

Lastly to my Fates...thanks for breathing life into my stories and trusting me to break your hearts and put you back together again. You will never know what you have done for my life.

See you soon..

XOXO,

C.R. Jane

Ivy Fox’s Acknowledgements

It’s finished.

It’s freaking finished!

*wipes away happy tears*

I can’t believe C.R and I are finally saying goodbye to these characters; especially after all we put them through. I won’t lie, this duet was an emotional rollercoaster, but I’m so happy Valentina, Logan, Quaid and Carter got their happily ever after, just as they deserved.

I know there were plenty of readers who were fearful at starting this duet, since it wasn’t exactly a feel good kind of book, but to all the ones who took the plunge and trusted us with their hearts, we thank you.

Sometimes we writers need to push the envelope, just to see what we can do if we push ourselves to cross what we believe are our limits. That’s how we grow, how we evolve and hopefully how we become better at our craft. And we can’t thank our readers enough for always being at our side as we take these leaps of faith. We truly hope you enjoyed the Breathe Me duet as much as we enjoyed writing it.

Now I’d like to send out a huge thank you to my partner in crime—the Taylor to my Selena.

C.R…. damn babe, I can’t believe we finished our first duet together. Thank you for making my first experience in co-writing so effortless. It was as easy as breathing working with you. You always got exactly what was in my head, always in sync with my thoughts even before I could put them into words. I’m so grateful to have you in my corner, pushing me to excel in every area of