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June 25 - July 16, 2025
I may be a traitor but at least I’ve got my family in my corner. Not sure if I deserve it, though.
Karli is smiling at me. Carefree and beautiful. Everything feels so perfect.
I’m proud as hell to be the woman on his arm tonight.
“Speaking of brothers, do you have any?” “Five,” I spit out. “I’m the only girl.” “Ooh!” Nicky rubs her hands together. “I totally consent to you giving them my number. Because the romantic prospects in this town are dead-ends.”
this to me feels like almost incest, your brother in law dating your sister or your sister in law dating your brother, ew!
He dips his mouth close to my ear and whispers. “You’re the most beautiful woman in here. You’re the only one that I see.”
As for Davis and Alana, they’ve bypassed all the dancing and gone straight for blatant making out in a dark corner of the room. Wait—isn’t he running for mayor? Is he allowed to do that?
real bc i would also think this
Oh my god! What is this freaky town?!
I went to freaky town and they told me you were a resident there
The crowd is going crazy as the song comes to an end. But the spell I’m under refuses to let go. Something changed during that song. Something’s different now. From this point onward, I don’t know if we can turn back.
The whole way there, I’ve got my hand on his thigh and I’m barely restraining myself from whipping off my seatbelt and climbing into his lap as he drives.
me with my boyfriend all the time
“You know what, Karli Brighton? I am sick of your snark. I’m gonna fuck you so hard tonight.”
AHHHHHH
The boiling fury in his voice, I’ve never heard it before. Damn, that’s hot.
For a moment, he searches my eyes with his brilliant brown orbs. The look on his face makes butterflies tussle inside my belly. It’s almost like he’s searching my face for the answer to a very important question. Can I be that someone to treat him right?
His lips drop to my ear. “I don’t need a membership when I’ve got you.” When he says that, I get a fluttery feeling in my chest. A part of me is swooning but the other part of me is scared shitless.
This man is so beautiful. The way he loves his family. The way he cares for his patients. The things he does for me even though I don’t always deserve it. He’s so good. Doesn’t he deserve better than me? Doesn’t he deserve someone who can give him forever?
“I don’t know…” he admits after a long pause. “I just know that it feels good now. Being with you feels better than anything I’ve ever experienced.”
“I don’t want to think about the end of summer. I don’t even want to think about what’ll happen tomorrow. I just want to be here with you now.”
My body is aching from last night as I climb the stairs to meet her. But I can’t leave without giving her a kiss.
“Yes. I know I’ll meet your parents at family dinner later but…” She’s eager. She wants to be here. I like this feeling.
Karli spent all of yesterday with my family and she still wants more. I love this.
This feels right. This feels right. This feels right. And I refuse to entertain the idea that it could possibly be wrong.
She fits. She fits so perfectly into my life. She fills every void that was empty. She shines light on every dark corner that was unfulfilled. She makes everything make sense. She fits.
My chest fills with pride, watching her shy smile and her pinkened cheeks. As much as I love Karli’s fiery edges, I love seeing her when her sweet, tender side takes center stage.
Her lips sweep down my throat, muddling the arguments in my mind. She’s trying so hard to make this okay inside her head. It’s not okay and I know it.
aw
I don’t want to lose her…I don’t want this to end…I don’t want to be forced to let her go…I’ll do anything to keep her.
“You fucking belong with me, Karli,” I hear myself growling. “You’re mine. Do you hear me?”
She owns all of me. Every little piece of me is hers. Does she even know that?
“I’m falling in love with you, Karli.”
“Fuck that, Karli. That’s not a good enough reason to throw this away. It’s just…not. So what if you have to move thousands of miles away? I’m willing to figure this out. To make this work. To upgrade to a frequent flier package. Whatever it takes.” Because Karli Brighton is worth it. I won’t let her push me away. I am going to fight for us.
“I’m not just doing this for me. I’m doing it for us,”
“If you’re not ready. Fine. I’m here. I’m waiting for you. I’m willing to keep waiting until you’re ready. If you take just one step, I’ll take two. I’ll take ten. I’ll take a hundred. Just to close this aching distance between us.
“You deserve to be happy, and I just want to help give you that. To show you what love should be. That’s it. No plans. Just one day at a time. You call the shots. Can we give that a try?”
The downside of having a family that gives a shit about you? They give a shit about you. Even when—especially when—you wish they’d just leave you alone.
The idea of my ex makes me want to hurl. I’d rather slam my dick in the door—over and over until it falls off—than
“You don’t get to lie here in a comatose state, feeling sorry for yourself because the outcome you want didn’t automatically fall into your lap. You’ve got to be willing to fight for it.
‘If a guy is worthy of you, he’ll put in the work. He’ll make it clear what he wants, and he’ll go after it. And he won’t let anything stop him until he gets it.’
I really screwed up. Royally. I don’t know why the hell I didn’t tell the man that I love him, too. Because I do. With all my fucking heart, I do.
I want to learn from him, I want to teach him, I want to share everything I know with him. I want to fill every moment with the sound of him breathing. When he’s in pain, all I want is to find ways to make him feel better.
My head is full of him. My heart is full of him. My soul is overflowing with the magic of Mason Westbrook.
There’s a painfully awkward moment between us, where neither one of us has the right words to say. But I hope my eyes say that I’m sorry. I’m sorry for this right now. And I’m sorry for what I said the other night. And for all the lonely nights after that.
i didn’t even know this book was part of a series, but i definitely should have read it first bc i don’t know who the fuck these people are
“I’m freaking in love with her, man! I love her. I want to be with her. I want a relationship with her. Hell, I can see myself spending my whole damn life with her.”
The only difference is that this time, there’s no blow-up doll making her ‘O’ face at me in the rearview mirror.
OMG THIS BLOWUP DOLL NEVER STOPS APPEARING
I was finally able to get my head on straight. I know what’s important to me. Mason. I love him. And I want all his love for me. I want to experience it. I want to swim in it. I want to bask in it. I want to live in it with him.
I do love you. You’re the most incredible woman I’ve ever met. I don’t know how the hell I’ll ever get over the way I feel about you.
Traveling past the familiar landmarks of Honey Hill feels like driving through a foreign land. Because my heart isn’t here anymore. I left it in the palm of Karli Brighton’s hand.
Starlight Falls, you thought you’d seen the last of me? Not so fast, bitch.
Mason and I were happy together. We were falling in love. In our own little fairytale inside that house, closed off from the world. But naive as we were, we were only building a sandcastle. And then reality came thundering in like a bulldozer and bowled over our fragile kingdom. It all happened so fast I didn’t see it coming. And now it’s over. Everything’s over. What a fucking fairytale.
“No.” I pout like a child. “I just want to bury my feelings under sugar and hide from reality.” And pretend
“Most of the time, the stories we tell ourselves are very, very far from the truth.”
Stop hiding in your brothers’ shadows. Stop using their big bossy ways as an excuse for not boldly stepping into the shoes of the woman you truly want to be.”
