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Looking like that. Holy hell. Had she always looked like that?
wonder how she’d look wrapped up in bedsheets. But not just any bedsheets–my bedsheets.
There was something in her eyes I hadn’t realized was missing when I’d looked at her before: fire. I started walking toward her, unable to help myself, ready to get burned.
“Glad to see your tongue is still sharp as ever, sugar.”
“And your family is my family, Emmy, so even if you weren’t in my bar, you would be my business. You’ve always been my business, and you’ll always be my business.”
When I found the Ryder boys, they treated me like I was worth something. Before I met them, I didn’t even know what a friend was. I’d never had one, but that day, I ended up with two.
“You didn’t ask me why I came home.” “I don’t care why you’re here, only that you are.”
Brooks hadn’t seen me yet, so I did something I never let myself do—I watched him.
Teddy stopped in front of Gus. “What’s that?” She pointed at his shirt, and like an idiot, he looked down. She flicked her finger back up and hit him in the nose. Gus growled. Literally growled.
They literary flirting
“Because I care about you,”
“Anything, sugar.”
When it came to Emmy, I was playing with fire, but I would happily walk into the flames for her. And I’d have a smile on my face the whole damn time.
His favorite movies were Dead Poet’s Society
Another reason to love him
From the second she walked through the door of my bar a few weeks ago, it was like she had branded herself onto my brain and practically demanded I think about her 24/7.
Guess what? There wasn’t any piece of Emmy I didn’t like. I was so fucked.
I wanted to give her pieces of me, too.
“This place is mine. You’re the first person I’ve brought here.”
“You know, if you don’t like the road you’re on, you can always pave a new one.”
I could get drunk off that look.
She was everything.
I would take whatever this woman would give me.
Exactly where I wanted to be.
I couldn’t believe the universe was so big, and I got placed on this random floating rock at the same time as Clementine Ryder.
I had been with boys. Luke was a fucking man.
I fell asleep in Luke Brooks’s arms. For the first time in a long time, I felt safe.
“Watching Luke Brooks fall to his knees the minute he sees you.”
I was falling for the one woman in the world I wasn’t allowed to fall for.
My eyes were always on Emmy.
and a bitch isn’t worth this.” Before he could start walking away, I grabbed him by the shoulder and swung. Hard. My fist hit his face with a gnarly crack, and Double Denim was laid out flat on the ground for a few seconds. He scrambled back up and came at me. I caught his fist in my hand—he threw a weak-ass punch—and twisted his arm behind his back. He was facing Emmy, but I made sure he wasn’t close enough that he could touch her. “Apologize,” I spat.
no one talked to Emmy like that and got away with it.
Now it was Teddy who was cheering.
اموت عليها
Her eyes were burning—just the way I liked them.
This woman had me wrapped around her finger, and she didn’t even know it.
I’d been waiting thirty-two years for her without even knowing it, and she’d been right in front of me the whole time.
Emmy Ryder might have been in like with me, but it was then that I knew I was falling in love with her.
“When she’s in my head, I can keep her safe.”
“Sugar, you deserve to go out on your own terms. Just because you got dusted doesn’t mean you’re done.”
“I just needed you.”
I could stay here forever. I wanted to stay with him forever.
“She asked for you.” Teddy shrugged. “Emmy never asks for anything. She just puts her head down and deals with things in the only way she knows how, by kicking shit around in her own brain. But she asked for you.”
“Thank you,” he continued, “for taking care of my baby girl.”
“She can take care of herself,” I said. “I know she can, but you made sure she didn’t have to do it alone.”
You’re the one that made him calm down,
“Some love stories burn hot and fast, but you two are more low and slow,” she said. “It’s a strong and steady kind of love.”
“I love you,” she said. It didn’t matter how many times she told me. Those words still warmed me all the way through, just like they had the first time.
