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His palm slides down my lower back, heading toward my ass. I snatch his wrist, turning my body and kneeing him in the balls, hard and without a second of hesitation. Instantly, he keels over in pain, a pathetic whimper escaping him.
I think she might be a little bit crazy. My favorite brand of crazy, but crazy nonetheless.
I won’t be the reason she gives up on her dreams.
too blind to see it or are too stubborn to admit it,
a normal, everyday moment, one I want to seal into my memories because these are the moments that matter.
Whatever you feel like making, we’ll feel like eating.”
“Thank you for tonight.” He leans his cheek on my hair. “I’d do anything for you, Miller.”
Did you save my number in your phone? I’m honored, Miss Unattached. Yeah. Yeah. You know what this means, right? We’re in a committed relationship now. Omg. Am I your first? You popped my committed relationship cherry, Kennedy Kay. Double honored.
Trying my best not to wake Max, I slide one arm under the bend in Miller’s knees, the other under her back before I gently lift her in my arms, turning to steal her seat. I get her settled onto my lap so I’ve got them both.
“Miller,” I whisper. “If you’re this sad, I have a shoulder you could lean your legs on.”
this wild woman is my son’s calm. And in a lot of ways, I think I might be hers.
no one else will ever compare to how complete she makes both me and my son feel.
it’s okay to change directions even when you’ve spent your entire life headed on a one-way street.”
drunk girls really do become best friends by existing in the same room.
“Love isn’t earned.
“Kai?” “Yeah?” “Can we forget about some of my rules? For the rest of the week while I’m here? I just want to know what it’d feel like.” “You want to know how what feels like?” “To be yours.”
“Mills, you already are mine. Even if I haven’t been allowed to show you, you’ve always been mine.”
I need to figure out how to make our next four mornings, our only four, last me a lifetime. I kiss her inked arm, running my lips over the black floral lines, and for someone who lives so unattached, I’m surprised she was able to commit to something so permanent.
Really stick it to him by sticking it in me, you know?”
I truly don’t know how I got so fucking lucky to have her attention on me, but I’d do just about anything at this point to keep it.
girl bosses need forehead kisses too.”
Miller tends to tell people she loves them through the food she makes, so I figured since I wasn’t allowed to tell her, I’d show her in the same way she does.
“You are the most jealous woman I’ve ever met. You know that?” Her head jerks back. “You’ve met other women?”
With my name on her back and my son in her arms, Miller stands in the center of the field, looking like mine.
while yes, I want to beg her to say, I’m not going to. We both know she can’t, and I don’t want her to feel obligated to me or to Max, but I am going to tell her she’s always got a home with us,
“Do you love her?” Monty asks. “I do. Very much so.” “She might break your heart.” “I’ll love her anyway.”
“What I’m trying to say is that my brother deserves the world and for him, you are the world.”
she shakes me off like she wants to feel the sadness, sit in it and let it consume her.
you don’t have to be the best to earn a name for yourself. I know you. I know you’re having a hard time grasping what just happened because this wasn’t a goal you set out to achieve, so yeah, you’re feeling undeserving of the name. But what if I waited until I was the best possible dad to allow him to call me that? He’d be waiting for the rest of his fucking life.”
I can deal with breaking my own heart, but I can’t live with breaking his.
stop giving your brilliance to other people. Put your name on it and own it.”
had my daughter. Found a new passion for life in her,
Your food will never meet its potential because you’ll never meet your potential.
