From Nowhere (Wildfire, #2)

by Jewel E. Ann

“Indeed. Nothing gets a guy horny quite like fetching toilet paper and a maxi pad for a stranger in the men’s bathroom.”

guess you can start with the sex talk that usually involves two people falling in love. Now, how you get from that to an old man on the sofa jerking off under a blanket to two strangers on television having sex . . . well, that’s a complicated bridge to build.”

I need you to stop judging me for how I’m navigating this journey that you have never taken. I know I’m not going to do everything right, but I’m heeding the advice of experts who have experience with childhood trauma. It’s the best I can do. And I believe it’s what Brynn would want me to do for Lola.” Tia bites into her toast, squinting at me while

I was trying to buy a box of condoms without her knowing. But she came back inside, and I panicked and tossed them into the bag so she wouldn’t see them. Then I was

ushering her toward the door to have her wait outside for me while I paid for them, but you stopped me before I had the chance to do that.”

“I like the way you look at me.”

“Like the sun after forty days and forty nights of rain.”

This is how a man kisses a woman like she’s his oxygen—like I’m his oxygen.

haven’t loved Maren for long. My brain knows that. It’s good at math and reason. But my heart doesn’t have filters. It doesn’t do equations. It doesn’t acknowledge the existence of time. The heart is unreasonable and completely illogical.

“So you’re meeting her parents for the first time after coma ghosting.”