When You Are Mine (The Bennetts, #1)
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Read between August 26 - September 10, 2025
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“The thought of seeing you one more time was the only thing that kept me sane. I know this is…nothing, but it saved my life. It was my lifeline when I wasn’t sure I’d make it.”
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“Kerris, the way my son looks at you is like—” Kristeene started, briefly hesitating. “It’s like a starved man. It’s like he can’t bring himself to look at anything else in the room.”
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“The river is clean and pure and strong.” Kristeene’s eyes popped open in one last moment of clarity. “And it’s a force of nature. Literally. It cuts through rocks. And once the course was set for that river, there’s no changing it. It stays the course. You understand?”
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“I knew you’d come.” She sounded more alert than Walsh had heard her in days. “I knew it.”
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They kissed like it was the first time, like it was the last time. His mother held his father’s head still, kissing him as if she’d take the taste of him on her lips into eternity. As if he were the wine at her last supper, a final indulgence to be savored and swished in her mouth like liquid luxury.