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why is she so pretty while she’s yelling at me?
“Sorry again,” I mouth, and she gives an absolutely lethal eye roll that I will be thinking about for the next three weeks while I shower and every time I close my eyes to sleep.
Her smile is everything to me, like it might make my brain melt the way her cheeks push up her eyelids and she tries to keep her lips closed.
As if her face isn’t already perfect, she needed to have a dimple. Sure.
“Because I don’t know very many women.” “Flattering,” I say, wry. “And even if I did know many women, you might be the most beautiful one.”
“Ultimately, we’re all family,” Vanessa says. “And family takes care of family.” This is very Fast & Furious of her, but I don’t mention it.
I think this must be how Vanessa feels every morning when she wakes up perfect.
I can handle any number of things on my own, but I didn’t realize how nice it is, sometimes, to have someone whose job is to handle things with you.
I don’t know how to tell her she’s the most beautiful woman, monster or not, that I’ve ever seen, and with every day that passes in her presence, I’m increasingly certain that there’s hardly a bad or cruel or monstrous thing about her.
hunter green silky night dress with little loose sleeves and I want to take it from her and hide it where she will never find it so I can keep it until I die. I’ll be buried with it. Green is my new favorite color.
“You know what I am,” Vanessa says. “I do. I think you’re the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me.”
“I love you,” he says, pauses, then rushes on, “I am criminally, fatally in love with you, and you can try to marry someone else, but I’m not going to leave. I like your house too much and I like you too much to ever be away from you.”
“To my sister Mary, and to Maxim Orlov, who I’m thrilled to announce will be wed this February.”
It still thrills me that I’m the man she kisses in front of everyone—the one she calls her husband, the one who will be the father of her children. I am the single most lucky man in the state of Massachusetts, and beyond.
