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“What’s going to happen,” he breathes, “is that I’m going to carry you through this door. I’m going to draw out every single moment until you’re exhausted. And I’m going to move so slow that three months ago will feel like yesterday. And tomorrow will feel like today, and no one in this fucking universe will be able to say your name without saying mine.”
Watching the way he looks at me nearly sends me into a tailspin.
I know your girlfriend’s secret. – Unknown
Lily Calloway: Daughter of the Founder of Fizzle, a Sex Addict and a Whore.
She gives me a look like why am I with him again? I smile and really want to say: Because you’re two nerd stars, orbiting and meant to kiss. But that won’t make sense to anyone but me.
There’s something invigorating about the dead of night. How, right before you go to sleep, your mind springs awake. My thoughts flood all at once.
I want to be light as a freakin’ feather. I want to float right on out of here. But I keep thinking about it.
They belong together the way books fit in a library.
ROSE AND CONNOR!!!!!
Come on, Rose, let the guy in.
Her shoulders drop. He comes behind her and whispers in her ear. When his voice grows, I catch the syllables, but I don’t understand the words. He’s speaking to her in French. She answers back in the foreign language, fluent. He kisses her head, and then she spins around and kisses his lips, standing on the tips of her toes.
His words paint the blackness of my future into a clearer picture. And it’s an image I want to return to the store. A life where we don’t have kids. Where our family consists of me and him. And that’s it.
“You touch her, you even think about her, and I’ll have you in the ground before you can say thank you, Loren Hale.
“I don’t know how to live without you.” And I shake my head quickly as tears pool. “And I don’t want to know how. I don’t want to find out.”
I want our love to be right. Why can’t it be right?
I want to take her pain away, but the irony is that I’ve caused it.
Whoever said that sticks and stones will break bones but words never hurt have obviously never been teased or insulted.
Daisy easily agreed. She seems to want to please other people, and I wonder just how much of her life has been dedicated to appeasing her mother.
All these girls have complexes,
“Daisy,” Ryke says with so much emotion to the name that shivers run down my arm.
For once, I’m on the other side of things. And it feels pretty good.
I’m beginning to think that Connor Cobalt only lets people into his life halfway. Maybe he’s more like us than I believed.
She rubs her face before anymore tears slide down. Ryke is more concerned than I’ve seen him in a while, and that includes when Lo was puking on the side of the road.
Fizzle heiress has over fifty sexual partners and counting. Rumored sex addict.
The news anchor is a petite blonde woman with bright red lipstick. “We just confirmed from a source that Lily Calloway, daughter of the founder of Fizzle, is a sex addict. As well as the fifty plus known men she’s slept with, she’s also been known to hire male prostitutes.”
I think the six of us—we’re all strong. We’re each just a different kind of strong. But we all have a different kind of weak too.
Maybe…maybe we’re just not meant to have a happy ending. Maybe we don’t deserve it.
Calloway Couture is a young business already on shaky ground. The blow toppled it over.
“Sometimes the person we think we’ll become is the person we already are, and the person we truly become is the person we least expect.”
“Ryke—” “You know what else you did?” He blinks and tears fall. “You lost your only son.” He goes to turn around, and Sara grabs his arm.
“It’s not your fault,” Lo says, holding onto his older brother.
This is giving Johnny and Gibsie
She is my past, my present, my future. So when I open the door and slide into the driver’s seat, I’m not surprised that it feels like I’m returning home.
“Lily Calloway, will you marry me? For real this time?”
