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Everything is about to change.
“Dada said maybe you can help him adopt me.”
She should come with a warning: Nearness may cause distractibility and lapses in judgment. Proceed with Caution.
I still haven’t told her a crucial piece of information—that I found out about the marriage contract right after we signed it.
“I am so many things,” he says, his voice low and steady, “but a gentleman is not one of them.”
sir yes sir :P
You just called me Aleksandr several times.” “That’s your name.” “You only use that name when you’re mad at me.”
“If we’re married, why aren’t we having sex?”
“The first time we do this, I’m coming inside you.”
She’s chasing her first orgasm and in my mind I’m already planning out her second.
it dawns on me that even though I’m the adult, I am absolutely not in control in this situation. Stella is one hundred percent running this show.
“But Raina will only be my nanny. I wanted Petra to stay and be my mom.”
“I feel like love is a lot stronger when you want someone without needing them,” Sierra says. “Please explain.” I like this phrase Aleksandr used the other night, and I think I’m going to employ it often. “Well,” she says slowly before pausing. “When you love someone because you need them, it’s hard to tell what that love is based on—is it really love or is it codependency? But when you love someone that you don’t need in your life, when you’re already whole and you love someone because they make you happier, better, more fulfilled—that’s a much stronger kind of love.”
“I’ve missed you for fourteen years,” he says. “I hardly think I’m going to stop now.”
“Why not try to make this marriage work?”
You have to take the time and put in the work on what’s most important.”
