More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
emotional manipulation, have you? They named a whole wing after my granny at the University of Guilt Trips.
a laugh that could bring out the sun on your cloudiest day.
That option sat in my gut like I’d swallowed a peach pit.
“Pop’s so proud, he looks like a tick ready to burst.” He nodded back the way I’d just come.
The voice behind me made heat coil up my back in a slow wave like all my nerve endings had come out to say hello to Jed.
His laugh was a firework bursting to life—I
The thought they’d been out before rattled through me like shaking a box of rocks.
Relief and elation got their pom-poms out to cheer for this man.
I gulped because I was smooth like that.
Phase Ten.
seeing him standing there, grinning like he’d been waiting all day to see me—I
His chuckle worked through me like a sparkler,
charm shooting from his eyeballs like twinkly missiles zeroing straight in on their hearts.
“Callie Louise,” I chided, tsking away at her. “You want to go park somewhere for a couple of hours on our first date?”
my fun-sized companion
She whispered those last words, hinting a certain salaciousness to them. That low, naughty tone spun a heated breeze through my chest.
I vacuumed up that cozy breeze, reminding myself to forget it.
Callie with a nail gun sounded weirdly hot.
Confidence radiated from him like a supernova—he
My laugh came out more snort than anything else. His eyes practically turned into sunbeams over that indelicate sound.
His voice had gone so sinfully low, I felt it in my bones like a bass beat.
Jed’s tender voice curled around my heart like a bear hug.
Everyday, rumpled Jed proved pretty delicious, but head-to-toe dirty, T-shirt clinging to him from sweat, mildly dangerous-looking Jed? Devastating.
Callie’s grin shot through me like a soda can shaken up and fizzing over. She had the kind of smile
Only call me Staff Sergeant if you’re planning on following every order I give you.”
His rakish grin sent my insides tumbling. “I’m not afraid of mess.” Good thing. Because my tangled up heart felt like it had the potential to turn into a whole lot of mess if I didn’t rein it in right quick.
Good gracious, his smiles were like fireworks going off, pops and fizzes hitting me straight in the heart.
My hands went to his waist of their own accord, little magnets drawn to the steel of his abs.
a baby bear growl of frustration.
Her warmth, her eager storytelling, the way she found the best in everything, like she needed to love the hell out of life.
I found him watching me with enough heat to power a thousand suns,
His naughty grin was a lit match, and my insides went up like tinder, flames spooling out from my belly down to the tips of my toes and up to the top of my head.
The kiss was sweet, like he’d cobbled it out of pure spontaneous affection. He smiled against my mouth, and my heart exploded into little stars.
his expression still lit with an open affection
I patted his back and slipped away from his arms before I could be tempted to write up a change of address form and stay there permanently.
Jed gave with every touch of his lips, the play of his tongue, the stroke of his hands over my back. Like he’d found the book of How to Kiss Callie and had studied up until he’d become a pro. Or maybe he’d written that book.
She winked, and I think my heart exploded.
She’s a ray of sunshine in human form.
#swoon 🤍🖤❤💙💜💚🧡💛🤎
My heart felt like it’d been through a blender—I couldn’t stop to examine all the broken bits, too.
The words came out small and soft, baby animals that didn’t want to frighten me into admitting just what exactly I was scared of.
But I see you living your life like it’s all going to be stolen from you. Like you’re living on borrowed time, so you don’t look very far into the future in case it gets taken away.”
I wasn’t sure yet if Callie was mine, but without a doubt, I was hers. Totally and completely.
