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“You do know you’re in love with that girl, don’t you?”
“Stop being so mean to me. It gets me hard when you’re mouthy. Makes me think of all the fun ways I could put that mouth to work instead. And I don’t need a boner right now.”
Theo: Rude is me telling you that if you wanted a pearl necklace, I could have given you one.
Everything about the delicate garment is so easily lifted or ripped. And then she’s wearing this pretty choker-style pearl necklace, and I can’t help but wonder if she did it to test my control and my maturity. I can’t wait to whisper something dirty in her ear about pearl necklaces and watch her squirm.
I lean against the bar, bottle of beer in hand, burning lasers into a guy I generally like for daring to dance with the woman I’m in love with while I wait for her to decide if she might like to be in love with me too.
Harvey cackles to himself as he moves into the crowd, presumably to make jokes that toe the line of appropriate to someone else.
This dress looks far too much like some sort of sexy nightgown. It really should be illegal.
away. I want to be alone.” A tear streaks down her face. I know she hates to cry. Hates having big feelings and big conversations. Hates to feel weak or out of control.
I’ll be too busy loving you.”
“You’d like to be my pretty little slut tonight?”
Hot. Wet. Hungry. Just the way I like her.
“Because eating your pussy is one of my favorite things to do.”
“Spread, Winter. Ass up so I can disrespect you the way you want me to.”
I fuck her hard. “Take it, Winter. Come on my cock.” “Theo!” Her voice is loud now. I hope someone hears us.
“I don’t think I can walk anymore. Pretty sure my entire post-secondary education just evaporated right out of my head.”
“And now he’s giving me a sponge bath.” “Yeah. But this is the slut version. No sponges or fancy soap in a bathtub. Just paper towels and lukewarm tap water in a public washroom.”
Drunk on the sound of laughter flowing from a woman who has spent far too long feeling sad.
I take my time, reveling in being able to touch her so freely.
“I could sit you back on that counter and fuck you again. This time, with your legs wrapped around my waist.” “Or we could get out of here and do that somewhere else.” “Yeah.” I lick my lips, mind racing with all the ways I could have her.
“Nobody has the smart mouth that you do. Makes me a lot less interested in kissing them.”
She always has a look of wonder on her face when I do or say something playful. It pisses me off and thrills me all at once. It’s like no one has even attempted to make this woman laugh.
Leaving with Theo and spending a leisurely night with his hands on me sounds like a dream.
Waking up with him sounds like a dream too.
For the first time in my life, my father appears to be at a loss for words. For the first time in my life, someone has come to my defense.
With Theo, I feel the same way I feel with Vivi—in love. But it’s too soon. Too fast. I’m still too raw. So, I set the terrifying thought aside and leave it for later when I’m thinking more clearly. When my legs aren’t still shaking from the way I just fell apart for him.
“Dr. Hamilton in the streets, filthy slut in the sheets.”
“You were what I’ve always needed and never had.”
“Winter.” The cheeky grin I’ve come to love graces his beautiful face. The one that comes right before some punchy little remark. The one that makes me smile before he’s even said a thing. “Do you like me?”
“I think I more than like you.” “Because I’m your baby daddy?” “No.” I meet his eyes at the final red light before we pull up to the house. “Because you make me like myself . . . and you’re the only one who ever has.”
He said he wanted to get messy with me, but it’s possible he forgot what a huge mess I really am.
“You could wear a nun’s habit and it wouldn’t stop me,”
My chest caves in on itself in a Theo-shaped hole.
I try not to eye-fuck him in his boxers during what should be a wholesome family moment. I fail.
I get the sense he isn’t only staring at Vivi. He’s staring at me too. His girls.
Winter: Please don’t do something that will land you in prison. Theo: Can’t make any promises. Winter: Please? I’d still bail you out, but I’d be mad at you. Theo: You being mad at me gets me hard. Angry sex is fun. This is not a deterrent. Winter: Maybe I wouldn’t bail you out at all. Theo: Nah. You’d miss my dick too much. Winter: No. I’d miss *you*.
She’s convinced she needs to do everything alone because that’s what you showed her all her life. That no one will show up for her. That everyone always abandons her.”
She says a bunch of words, but they don’t mean shit. I’ve strung more coherent sentences together after way too much tequila.
“Am I?” “Are you what?” “Your girl?” “That’s what I keep trying to tell you. I need to get your hearing checked. Take you and Peter to the vet once and for all.”
His firm fingers grip my chin and turn my face back to him. “Winter, we are a thing. We are the thing. We are it.”
And then he kisses me. In the middle of the gym. When he should be paying attention to the girl with the even boobs.
“I’m off at seven. Then we’re going out.” “Out?” “Yeah. Dinner. A bar. Something. A date.” “A date?” He smiles, pushing to stand over me. “Yeah. We haven’t done one of those yet, have we? Wear a slutty dress for me.”
“Are we having tequila again?” He turns away with a rumbling chuckle. “Sure, Tink. I’ll lick it off you when we get home,” is what he calls back.
He’s so effortless. So soothing. “Hold up. I paid for dinner so you’d have sex with me later.” So ridiculous that he makes me laugh.
“New rule, you only train people who are less pretty than me.”

