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“I’m, ah…” Shrugging sheepishly, he shook his head and grinned. “I’m a fair bit oversized.” No, he was perfect. God hadn’t made a single mistake with this particular boy.
I didn’t care if it would hurt me. I didn’t care, period. Because I was vulnerable around this girl. Shannon Lynch utterly disarmed me.
Shannon soaked up every sliver of my attention. It wasn’t a healthy feeling, but it was an addictive one.
Usually, I couldn’t wait to be done with the cinema, or any other mundane excursion that didn’t revolve around rugby, but not tonight. Not with this girl.
Never in my life had I been partial to drunk dialing, but right now I had a burning urge to dial her absent number.
I wanted to be back in my room, with my phone pressed to my ear, listening to her stumble over her words as she told me every one of her thoughts.
I wanted to be sitting in that dark cinema with her, not paying an ounce of attention to the film showing, while I stole secret glances at her and burned in heat when I found her eyes on me.
I just wanted her.
His father was a barrister. Mine spent plenty of time in court, too—on the other side of the law.
His house reeked of money and luxury. Mine reeked of whiskey and pain.
Feeling relief over the loss of a pregnancy was the most disgusting, horrible, unforgivable crime on the face of the planet. And that’s the first thing I felt when those words came out of Johnny’s mouth.
In this moment, being here with him was as easy as breathing. It was an odd reaction to being in such close proximity to Johnny, but there it was.
I liked the fact that she was turning my life on its axis and encouraging never-seen-before notions and feelings inside of me, and then I hated that I liked it.
I knew I needed to get a fucking handle on myself. Except I couldn’t. Because she was addictive. And I was obsessed.
Rugby was a sport. It was a game. It wasn’t all he was. It was just one part of him.
There was something very wrong with me. Running around for twenty minutes in the pouring rain for a shoe was a good indication that this girl was making me lose my mind.
I seemed to have a habit of doing that when it came to this girl. I knew I needed to step the fuck back. But I couldn’t.
In one stare, I felt like I had collided with him. It was instant and shocking.