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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.
I blink at his use of my first name after so much Ms. Morelli, and further, at his assumption that I’ve never murdered anyone. It’s not lost on me how much danger he’s in just by speaking to me in public, where anyone can see and think he’s working with me.
A little odd given she is just out and about at a school
Vanessa is hot, like stupid hot. She is hotter than me, I am aware. I would probably have to be an Avenger, or a fucking vampire to be as hot as she is.
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.
He's so delulu it's adorable
“This isn’t helpful.” Vanessa holds the back of her neck for a moment before shutting the file folder and pushing it away from her. “The moms are antsy. They want me to date these men like I’m the fucking bachelor.” “Bachelorette,” Willa corrects. “Does that make Nate your Jesse Palmer?” Leo asks. Mary and Vanessa speak at the same time: “Who?”
Who doesn't love a good Bachelor Universe reference
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.
Today will be my thirty-ninth interview since starting on this mad chase for Vanessa, and after that, I might just have to sign her up for Love is Blind or begin searching outside of the mafia.
Loving these references
“You know what I am,” Vanessa says. “I do. I think you’re the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me.”
“I don’t understand it either,” I admit. “But I want you all the time. Forever.
“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.”
