Only You by Celeste Daniels

Author:Celeste Daniels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hera Books
Published: 2025-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Dani could barely look up from her lap as she waited for Jones to sort things out with the librarian. One of them had followed, after seeing her crying her eyes out. Jones had led her to a stone bench just outside the building, promising to be right back. She had thought about leaving but couldn’t gather the strength to get up, much like Sarah. She placed her head in her hands at the thought.

She had researched for weeks but she couldn’t find an answer. There was no rhyme or reason to why she was reincarnating, why she was only remembering now when she couldn’t before, why she kept falling in love with the same person and why – oh, why – did it always end with both of them dying.

She tried listening to Dr Castillo, but everything pointed to their lives repeating. The only way she could think of solving it was by avoiding Jones. And now she almost killed herself trying to do so. She would laugh at the irony if she wasn’t so exhausted. She heard footsteps approaching and she moved her hands to her lap. Jones sat down next to her, placing the books she was researching and her coat between them.

‘Ms Diana told me to tell you that she likes the variety in your taste of books, just not your checkout method,’ he said.

She huffed out a tired laugh, but it was half-hearted and fell flat.

‘I’ll remember that next time,’ she told him. Her eyes softened as they landed on him. ‘You have the same eyes.’

He raised his brows. ‘As who?’

All of them, she wanted to say. He didn’t look like any of their past lives but the look of care and longing in his eyes was one she had lived with for over a century. A prize possession she could only ever cherish temporarily.

‘I’m trying to figure out what’s happening to us,’ she said instead. ‘I keep looking but nothing’s coming up. All I know is that the closer we get, the more likely it’ll be that you’ll die, or I’ll die, and I can’t figure out how to fix it.’

Her voice got wobbly at the end, and she bit the inside of her cheek to hold back her tears. She had been breaking down almost every other day. Every time she reached a dead end, she almost felt like she was dying all over again. It was too painful to bear, too hard to admit, when her friends or professors asked why she looked so tired or sad.

How did she tell them she was going to pass away because the universe or God decided she couldn’t have life and love at the same time?

‘The dreams started when I was a kid, maybe five-ish,’ Jones said, suddenly. Dani scrunched her brows before she recalled their conversation in the McDonald’s parking lot. ‘Like I said, the memories triggered during freshman year. My first love broke up with me, and I had never felt heartache like it.

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