Release Me (New Haven Series #3)

by J.L. Seegars

For the hard hearts in search of a tender love. May it find you in time.

There are some people you meet that make you just want to do everything for them, no matter what it cost you.”

“Because I know you’re not ready for the things I want from you, and I don’t want to be sitting in front of my parents and siblings when you shut me out again.”

“You seem to be under the impression that you’re not the most precious thing in my life. There is no end to the list of things I want to have with you and give to you, chief among them is time. Time to heal. Time to trust. Time to prepare your heart for what mine wants to ask of it.” The pad of his thumb swipes over my bottom lip, and he drops my gaze to trace the motion with his eyes. “How could you ever think I don’t want you around after all the things I’ve done to keep you in my orbit?”

You saved yourself. You didn’t need me then, and you don’t need me now, but I want you to want me.”

“I see the hurt and traumatized woman lurking in the shadows of your eyes, and I love her. I see the woman I’ll build a future with, and I love her. I see my wife, the mother of my kids, the partner I’ll trust with everything and deprive of nothing, and I love her. I love you. I know everything there is to know about you, and what I don’t know I’ll learn. You don’t have

to run from me, Nadia, and you don’t have to be scared. I don’t just want the polished, perfect version of you. I want the broken one too. I want every version of you because every version of you belongs with me.”