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neck, squeezing me tight, and the way my ribs expanded just from the weight of her against my chest almost felt supernatural. Forty pounds, and she could crush me if she wanted to. Hardly a blip of what my muscles could handle, yet nothing else in the world impacted me the way holding my daughter did.
A father’s love for his daughter. What a powerful, unique thing. They watched us grow and wanted to protect us. They wanted to make us strong and confident and brave, and be by our side when it mattered.
“First Adaline, and now you,” he said, referencing our sister who was happily with one of his former teammates. “I am never introducing my sisters to anyone ever again,” he mumbled, walking out of the room with a scoff.
“She’s fearless,” I said. “Some people are too afraid to love that way, undaunted by whatever might
come next, which might look like sweetness to some. But I just see a big, brave heart.” I blinked
“And some of the best relationships come from finding balance between the personalities.”
Until I moved into the Coleman house, I was a very deep sleeper. My brothers used to joke that it would take a thundering hoard of angry men stomping into my bedroom to jar me awake. They tested that theory a few times too.
Maybe because she was so fearless in the way she loved and did it without thinking.
“What do you want me to say, Poppy? I know how it sounds, trust me. But he’s just … he’s so earnest. He says what he means, and he’s not afraid of my crazy ideas, and he doesn’t try to make me be anything other than what I am.”
“The hard comes in life, whether you do something to lessen the blow or not. And you can’t make it disappear because you hate seeing the people in your life suffer through it.”
Parker doesn’t want to look this in the face either because he feels helpless or angry, or whatever the case may be. But so do you. You just let it show in a different way than he does.”
“You can’t take the blow for Beckett with Josie because he walked into this with you,” he said gently. “You tried because your heart loves so big and so fierce. For Olive and for him. And you can’t make this last part of my life any different, any better, by trying to fix the hard parts of what’s coming.”
When he took a few steps closer, I saw the fire roaring in his gaze. “I’m here to get my wife.”
