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Honestly, I’m probably more like kombucha if I had to categorize myself. Bitter at first taste but then slowly starts to grow on you after you hold your nose and force it down.
“Anyone who is lucky enough to be a part of your universe will know exactly what they have from the moment you walk in.”
My little brother’s best friend is the one thing in the world that I can’t have, no matter how badly I want her. No matter how badly I’ve wanted her for years. She’s beautiful, and kind, and one hundred percent off-limits.
She may have meant to ask Eli to fulfill her proposal, but too fucking bad because she asked me, and I haven’t been able to sleep since.
Not how I expected to spend my Friday night, but if it means looking after Hallie, then there’s nowhere else I want to be.
Because the truth is, sure, she thought her damn proposal went to the wrong Collins brother, but little did she know it went to the right brother. There’s no one else in this damn house putting their hands on Hallie Edwards unless it’s me. I’ll make sure of it.
“All of it. Don’t compare yourself to anyone, Hallie. You’re fucking perfect, and I don’t want to hear you say shit like that ever again.”
“Your first kiss isn’t going to be this, Hallie. It’s going to be when you come to me, when you know without a shadow of a doubt that this is what you want. When you give yourself to me. When I can give you a first kiss that you’ll never forget, the one that ruins you for everyone else after me. You know where to find me if you decide that’s what you want.”
“Thank you for trusting me with something as special as this, Hallie. I promise I’ll take care of you.”
“Hallie?” She drags her gaze back to mine, her thick dark lashes framing her wide eyes. “When it comes to you? I want to know all of it.” “O-okay then.” She doesn’t realize what I mean by that yet. But she will.
In the middle of his baseball field, soaked from head to toe, I get my first kiss from the only boy I ever wished it would be.
“Because Hallie… you’re the only person that I feel like me around.”
You’ve never been to heaven until you’ve heard Lane Collins praising you as a good girl, and I will take no opinions on this.
“In my shirt and in my bed?” Licking his lips, he groans, “You’re trying to fucking kill me, Hallie.”
“You are perfect, Hallie Jo Edwards. Don’t ever let anyone tell you anything different.”
“I feel like I might actually go to hell for this. You’re too fucking sweet for me, Hallie. Too good.”
“Maybe I don’t want to be good anymore. Maybe what I want is to not be held like porcelain. Maybe I want to be dirtied up. Maybe I want you to give it all to me.”
“I’m trying to be a gentleman, Hallie.”
“And maybe I don’t want you to be a gentleman, Lane. You’ve made this about me from day one. I know that you respect me, and I know that you want to move at my pace, and I am ready for you to not treat me like I’m breakable. I’m ready for this.”
“Fuck it,”
“Get on your knees. You want to suck my cock like a slut, Hallie?”
“So pretty that it makes it hard to think straight, Hallie Girl. Everything about you makes it hard to think of anything other than you.”
“No one says that shit about my girl.”
The entire university will know by morning that I just claimed Hallie Jo Edwards.
She’ll be the star of every dream I have until I die. And even then, it’ll still be nothing compared to the real thing.
“It’s always been you.”
“And it’ll always be you, Hallie Girl.”
This may have started as me teaching you, Hallie, but it’s really you that’s been teaching me all along. You’ve been teaching me how to love.”
Loving Lane Collins is the easiest thing I’ve ever done.
Love isn’t conditional. It doesn’t have terms or expectations. It doesn’t matter if two people fit together. All that matters is that together… you feel whole.
