Worth Living For

by Lys910

A friendship that was greater than romance? This was a foreign concept to her… and it was threatening. It threatened everything she'd been clinging to in order to survive her miserable existence. The primacy of the romantic dream was the rope she'd been thrown as she struggled to tread the grimy waters of a life of suffering. And now, Grantaire was threatening to sever that rope.

12. Chapter 12

Grantaire stopped bringing women home from the bars.

The next time one seemed open to him despite his ugliness, all he could think of was the men who took Éponine without caring about her.

And it made him sick to his stomach.