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“You’re honestly trying to tell me that those two aren’t in love?” “I never said they weren’t in love.” Chuckling, she added, “Only that they’re not together.”
“You don’t own me.” “Well, that’s bad fucking luck on my account, because you sure as shit own me!”
“Why would you say that to me?” “Because it’s the truth.” “Since when?” “Since I was twelve.”
every part of me loved every part of her. The good, the bad, and the ugly. I fucking reveled in all of it.
She had my heart in knots and my head spinning.
I’m the girl who wholeheartedly loves you. The hurler. The mechanic. The boy. The protector. The asshole. The lover. The addict.” Sniffling, I added, “All of your versions. All of your shapes and colors. I accept them all.
The world she was about to enter was one I would never belong to.
Soon Joe
I’m a short-tempered asshole, with neither the patience nor the temperament to handle a person such as yourself in my life.” “Well, I think you’re wrong,” Gibsie replied, handing me a fork and taking up position on the stool next to mine. “I think we could love each other.”
you signed your life away on a child’s promise?” “What can I say?” He shrugged before adding, “I’m a man of my word.”
“I don’t know how to help.” “No offense, but it’s kind of impossible for you to help him when you’re the source of his pain.”
Oop
“Loving your son is effortless,” I cut her off by saying, pushing my damp hair out of my eyes. “It’s getting him to love himself that’s the hard part.”
“God loves a trier,” Casey agreed, eyes dancing with mischief. “But Aoife loves Joey.”
“I’ve loved your daughter for six years,” Joey finally broke his silence by saying. “I can easily love her for another eighteen.”
“I might be only eighteen, but I’m more of a man than you’ll ever be.”
I’ll kill ya before I let you leave me. Do ya hear me? I’ll burn this fucking house to the ground with you and your cunts in it before I let ya go!”
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“I just need him to be okay, Gibs. I just…I need that boy.” “Because you’ve got a bun in the oven?” “What?” I stilled, frowning. “How did you—” “Don’t worry, I can keep secrets, too,”
“Oh my god,” I cried, practically falling off my chair in my bid to get to him. “Seany!” “E-fa,” he mumbled around the fingers he was sucking, before releasing himself from Edel and toddling toward me, his little hand covered in its usual slobber. “E-fa.”
Wait my heart hurts
“I’m the one saving 6.”
“But it’s okay that it happened to you because you’re a male?” I opened my mouth to answer her, but nothing came out. Fuck.
Gag.
“Put the gun down, Joey,” she replied with a sad smile. “The fight’s over.” “Yeah, well, I’ve been fighting for so long, I don’t know how to take my finger off the trigger,”
“There is no fucking way that I am ever wearing a blazer to school,” I growled, repressing a shiver. “I would rather shit in my hands and clap.”
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