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I want something. I want to be needed. Appreciated. Loved. No, I don’t just want it. I fucking crave it.
“Don’t go dying on me, Rosie. I’m not ready to let you go yet. We’ve only just met.”
“Don’t worry.” He nudges my shoulder with his. “I won’t replace you.” I giggle. “Promise?” “Promise.” His gaze moves over me in a slow sweep that heats my insides. “’Cause you’re irreplaceable, Rosie, aren’t you?”
“You know, Rosie. I wasn’t having the best day when I ran into you. Or rather, when my dog tackled you to the ground. Maybe he knew what he was doing, though. Because my day got a hundred times better after you fell into it.”
“Because I gotta tell ya, Rosie, the thoughts I’ve been having would get just a friend into an awful lot of trouble.”
“Hidden…identity…” She underlines it three times. “I love this trope.”
All the best people help us find ourselves when we’re feeling lost.”
“Because I’ve never wanted to be so deep in it as I do now that I’ve met you.”
“Got it. Two bottles of wine, an ice cream cone, and date number two.” He grins then, wide and full of mischief as his gaze drops to my legs. His hand lands on my knee, sliding along my bare skin, where he nabs the hem of my dress from where it’s ridden up my thigh. Gently, he shifts it back into place, eyes rising to meet mine, a fire blazing so hot, it singes my skin. “I can’t wait to unravel you.”
“Your heart’s going a mile a minute,” Adam murmurs in my ear. “I…” God, that’s embarrassing. I curl my fingers into my palms until my nails bite the skin. “I’m sorry.” “I’m not. Frankly, Rosie, I can’t tell you how good it feels to know that, for once in my life, I’m on the same page as someone.”
I could float through the rest of my life content in knowing I’ve held perfection in these arms.
She’s my version of paradise.
You were made to ride in my passenger seat.”
“This, Rosie,” he murmurs, pressing my palm above his pattering heart. “It’s all for you.”
You can’t pick and choose parts of people; you have to want all of them.
“Maybe it’s less about being someone’s first choice, and more about being loved, being loved enough to be someone’s first choice.”
“Being with you makes me feel better than I’ve ever felt.”
You’re my something special, Rosie.”
don’t want to waste my time asking pointless questions, imagining a life where you’re anywhere other than right next to me. I want to spend my days giving you the love you’ve always deserved, the kind you’ve dreamed of, and I want to show you how thankful I am for giving it back to me. You’re mine, Rosie, and I’m yours. That’s all I need to know. That’s why I’m staring at you.”
Luxury is being surrounded by all the love you need to walk through life. It’s having someone to laugh with on the good days, and arms to hold you up on the bad ones.
I guess what I’m saying is that even though I have everything I need with the family Connor and I have created with each other, the family I think we both want…well, I think that family includes Adam. Because even when he’s not here, he’s everywhere.
found Rosie. Finally, I fucking found her. Someone who makes me feel like a person. I forget when I’m with her. Forget that I’ve been broken. I forget to put on an act. I forget how much money I’m worth and yet still, with her by my side, I feel fucking priceless. Irreplaceable. When I’m with Rosie, I feel like there’s no one alive who can love her the way I do, the way I want to promise to love her for as long as she’ll let me.
“I’m gonna marry you someday, after all. Batman always gets the girl.”
“Every day, you give me something new to love about you. How lucky am I to find someone who gives me so many things to be thankful for?”
Right before my teammates tackle me to the ice, I tap my heart twice, then point at the two people who own it.
Because I’ve never wanted anything the way I want you and Connor, Rosie. Not a single thing, not even hockey. I want to be your partner, and I want to do all the things together. The adventurous things and the quiet, lazy things. I want to do all the happy things, and all the sad, hard things, too, as long as I’m doing them with you. I want to keep loving Connor exactly the way I do, like he’s mine, ours, because he fucking feels like it. That kid owns my heart, and there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t hope one day Dada won’t just be a name he calls me because it’s a phase, but because
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I’ve waited too long for this, a partner to walk through life with, a love I haven’t had to earn but simply deserved. Because, fuck, we all deserve to be loved without condition.
“My only goal in this life is making sure you spend the rest of your days knowing, without a doubt, how loved you and Connor are.” I tuck her into my side, sweeping my thumb over her dimpled chin. “If I succeed, I’ll have lived this life right.”
“How lucky am I to have my dreams come true?” “Am I really your dream?” he whispers against my lips. “Promise?” “Swear it.”
“If I’m your happy ending, you’re my heaven. There’s nothing else I need from this world. I could live here forever, in this place where I’m yours and you’re mine. There’s never been anything more beautiful than this version of paradise. I’m certain of it.”
You didn’t throw my whole world off balance. You centered it. It was like you were my gravity, and every moment I was with you, everything settled into place. My fears, my insecurities, my hopes, and my dreams. I was at peace with everything, as long as you were by my side.”
