First-Time Caller (Heartstrings, #1)

by B.K. Borison

I don’t want to be with someone if they’re not giving me something I don’t already have. I don’t want to waste my time on things that don’t feel like everything I’ve always wanted for myself.” “You want a guarantee.” “No,” she says quietly. “I want goose bumps. I want to be wanted. All this time and I—I haven’t given up. I guess I’m just waiting for it to find me.”

I’m going to believe what he says. I’m not going to beg him to be something he’s not. I won’t beg him to want me.

“I want to be the kind of man who deserves that laugh. Who earns it.” “It’s not about deserving,” I say, my throat tight. “If someone gives you something, you have it. You don’t have to earn it.”