More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Read between
January 11 - January 16, 2025
The worst part? I was pretty sure the shade of his eyes was now my favorite color green.
I wanted my love story, that whirlwind romance, the feeling like I couldn’t live without the other person.
Mission number one: get back in Gabrielle’s good graces. Mission number two: ignore how pretty she looked tonight. One of them might have been easier to accomplish than the other.
“You’re Belle,” I muttered, and she blinked up at me. “Like… the Disney Princess?” She blinked. “Mhm,” I grunted. Maybe I was exposing myself right now, but she’d always been my favorite growing up. “She wanted to see the world, and she loved to read, and she didn’t care what people thought about her. Like you.” And you’re beautiful, I thought. That brown hair and those enormous amber eyes got me every time I looked at her, like it drew the breath from my lungs.
I liked to think that Gabbi was like the night sky—so fucking beautiful to look at. Even
when you didn’t see her, she still somehow affected you, just like the moon and the tides.
Friends. We were doing a really great job pretending that was all there was between us.
You’re making it very hard to be just friends right now, Gabrielle Meyer,
“Can I kiss you? Please?” Her eyes opened, and I pulled her into my arms.
“Do you want me to fuck you right here in this garden, my little fighter? Want me to take you out in the open, where anyone could see us?”
I’d never done anything like this before. Never outside, and definitely not in public.
I wanted him to be so much more than a hook-up or a fling—I wanted him to be everything.
“I want to be with you. I’m just terrified, sweetheart. That I’ll screw everything up, and that I’ll lose my best friend, and the only girl I’ve ever cared about.”
“Keep reading. I want to get my girl off as she reads her smutty little books.”
God, she was my favorite view of all.
How I was going to be fearless like she always was. Fearlessly yours, I thought with a grin as I looked at her. No matter what happened, no matter what obstacles came our way, I was going to fight for her.
his eyes tight before bringing our gazes back together. “You’re essential. You light up my life like a thousand stars in the Milky Way. A billion.
