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Survival tip #12 Laugh lines can be deceptive. Sure, maybe this person is good humored and trustworthy. But maybe they laugh while they dismember corpses. Exercise caution.
Survival tip #2 Don’t wait for the next bad thing to happen. Move on before it does.
“Unlike Doctor Desirable over there, I’ll have you know that I have a little class. Only pure, Catholic, functional piggybacks for me, no matter what salacious siren spell you try to cast.” He looks over his shoulder, and my hanging mouth clicks shut. “I’m a respectable gentleman, you know. I need to be wined and dined.”
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You can never experience as much in your lifetime, or see through so many eyes, as you will by reading what others have to say. Books will glue our world back together, if anything can.”
Survival tip #230 Beautiful men make your brain fuzzy. Thinking is important. Abort!
“Whatever I agreed, you do not have the right to manhandle me like that unless I give you permission!”
Survival tip #238 You won’t actually pass out from embarrassment. It’s not a good defense mechanism.
Stop, stop, stop, one voice chants. They’re all watching! Another voice—a better voice, I decide—gasps a husky, I know. Hot, right?
Survival tip #124 Everyone has a past. Make sure theirs won’t come back to bite you.
Experience has taught me that gift horses should not only be looked in the mouth, but examined for fleas and attitude problems and secret, nasty packages strapped to their saddles.
“You had no right to drag me out here on some useless exercise because you can’t bear that she makes you tingle in your happy places.”
Survival tip #278 When manners fail, go primal.
Survival tip #183 “The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
Twister mat
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bazooka
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“Kintsugi,”
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“Stay still. This isn’t about you. You’re ours to suck and fuck and play with however we want.”
“I want to break the deal,” I say, calm and sure. “I don’t want any more conditions attached to me staying at Bristlebrook. I’ll stay because I deserve to be there. Because I contribute as much as anyone, and it has nothing to do with sex.” I don’t even stumble over that word anymore. What a wonder two weeks can work. “No more lies. No more hiding things. Not ‘going forward.’ From now on, I’m there because I want to be, and because you want me to be, and for no other reason.”
“Eden, I don’t always say the right thing. But I promise I’ll work on it. I think you’re fierce, and intelligent, and resourceful as anything—I was yours the minute you told us to run and save ourselves.” He rests his forehead against mine. “Take good care of me, sweetheart.”
“You put ketchup anywhere close to my mother’s recipe, and I will empty a bag of rice on the kitchen floor and make you pick up every last grain with a pair of tweezers between your teeth.”
Kimchi and dimples. A toxic combination.
“Was it me jerking off that gorgeous cock of yours that made you think I wasn’t interested in men? Or me oiling you up and having you parade around as my most exquisite furniture?” That was a particularly weak day for me. “Or was it the way I bent you over to see how you would take that hook up that pretty ass of yours?”
Survival tip #5 The people you love dearest will most likely die, and it will hit you like a bullet to the chest. Brace for impact.
Survival tip #336 Don’t ever underestimate the bravery of a woman who looks at you with stars in her eyes.
Survival tip #178 Kisses are better than oxygen. No, Beau, it’s a good tip, don’t take my—
