From Here to Eternity (Moonlit Ridge, #1)

by A.L. Jackson

“Think you’re wrong about that, gorgeous. Haven’t been able to get you off my mind since the second you walked through my door. No forgetting you. Wreckin’ my mind the way you did.”

Life has a way of convincing us that we don’t want something, or we don’t have space for it, or we believe we’re not even worthy of it. And sometimes what we need finds us, anyway.”

“Family’s just the people you love the most.” Nolan shrugged. “And I love you, so that’s gotta mean you’re my family, too.”

He said it nonchalant, like it was the simplest thing in the world, when it was nothing but profound.

“Nah, I’m not going to break you, Charleigh, I’m just going to ruin you for anyone else.”

“How could it be too fast if I’ve been waiting on you my entire life?”

“Because I love you. I’m so fucking in love with you. So caught up I can’t see a future where you don’t exist in it. I can’t imagine a day that I wake up without you in my arms. You fuckin’ struck me the first time I saw you, Charleigh. Pierced me all the way through. Stole some part of me when I inked myself on you. But you have all of me now. If you want it. If you’ll take it.”