A Love Most Fatal (Morelli Family, #1)

by Kath Richards

“And don’t call me dear.”

Oh yeah I’m gonna love her

However, I did not account for the spirit of Satan being in the entirety of the city’s driving population today, so now I’m going to be late.

Lmao me everyday

she yells, and god, why is she so pretty while she’s yelling at me?

YAAASSSSSSS

“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.

Need a man with this mentality

sensitive baby men who throw tantrums when they don’t get their way,

Same girl 🫩

Instead, I’m fucking thrilled.

Hehehehe

Damn southerners are not meant for Boston, and I stand by that.

RUDE! :(

I delight in the fact that, at almost thirteen, she still wants to show me her artwork.

Literally me with my 15 year old niece

he lost consciousness after Mary worked on convincing him for the better part of an hour.

What a badass

He cared for and believed in us in a way that most men in this world are incapable of.

“Teasing aside, Ness, I would marry you. If you needed, of course.”

Okay I’m in love with him. HIS BOOK NOW!!

The two of them have always been like this, excruciatingly in love.

PLEASE I NEED A PREQUEL BOOK ABOUT THEM!!!

“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.”

It’s easier to be myself around them because they all think I’m an old loser anyway.

Real lmao

“Hi,” she says. “Hi.” My grin is making my cheeks ache, and I incline my head to keep walking.

The squeal and giggle i just let out was embarrassing

My mind paints a very clear fantasy, unbidden, in which Vanessa and I live in domestic bliss. I’ve quit my job, just for a few years, just until the youngest is in pre-school, and Vanessa runs the world all day before she comes home to be with me and our two babies. After the children are asleep, after a delicious dinner I made, unless we ordered in, we make love and in fact make another baby, a third, a girl who we name Vanessa Jr. She has my nose. I think there is something wrong with me.

BYEEEEE

A Star Wars art print.

Hot

“No one touches him.”

HOT

Oh. She’s lost her mind.

But no, she wants to punch people. One way to get her wiggles out, I guess.

Shes so real for that

(an incredible number of cousins),

My family lmao

We both look out at her twins, their ankles hooked together while they float on the surface of the water.

Thats so cute omg

Cillian takes the glass of juice from my hand and brings it to Vanessa. “Thanks,” she says, and takes a long sip. “Just what I wanted.” Cillian smiles and winks at me over her head. I hate that fucking guy.

OMG A LOVE TRIANGLE??

we both have these lime green eye masks beneath our eyes.

Personally, I love screen time. I get it. This is why I am meant to be an aunt and not a mother.

Lmao me

“Artie’s not feeling great.”

Oh no

It reminds me of when they were babies. They always napped together, cuddled up like nothing could be more natural or comforting.

Crying cause now im tbinking about my twin niece and nephew

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.

“Are you any less of a disappointment to your mother yet?”

Lmao i love her

There’s a reason Leo doesn’t date, and I have a feeling it has less to do with his busy schedule and more to do with that youngest Garza boy.

Oooooooohhhh

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.

AH!

“I don’t think so. Cillian loves himself, and power. Of course he wants to marry her.”

I have a bad feeling about this guy now

“Who cares? So he dies, you owe him no loyalty. You shouldn’t have brought him into your home in the first place.”

Okay I hate him

“We can pretend. Just tonight.” After a pause, she nods. “Just tonight.”

Squealing!!!

“You’re so hot when you’re horny,”

I want to crawl around in her brain and study her messiest handwriting and read her words out loud to myself to see how her thoughts feel coming from my mouth.

So I let him take me upstairs and draw me a bath and, when I’ve fallen asleep against his chest in the tub’s warm water, I let him carry me to bed, tuck me beneath the covers, and scratch my back as I fall asleep.

My dream date...cute

“You know what I am,” Vanessa says. “I do. I think you’re the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me.”

“But I want you to choose me instead.”

“I’ll help you clean them,”

“You’re so beautiful when you behave.”

Oh fuck off

“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.”