Not in the Cards (The Beaufort Poker Club, #5)

by Maggie C. Gates

Melissa didn’t know it, but she was the reason I became the man I am today. I left this town so I could make myself into something worthy of her goodness. Worthy of her.

“Wreck it for me.”

Sometimes love doesn’t have to be complicated and dramatic. Sometimes it’s just two people who realize that they don’t want to live life any other way. Sometimes it’s leaning on each other. Trusting the other one to

be strong in a moment of weakness.

“There’s no time limit for getting over being hurt. No age where it just disappears. No statute of limitations to define when you have to let something go. You don’t have to abide by a theoretical timetable.”

“Life has a way of knocking us all around. At some point, arbitrary things like ages stop mattering, and you realize that people wade through deep shit in every season of life. It’s best just to put labels aside and decide whether you’re gonna sit in the mess with them or carry them through it. Sometimes it’s a little of both.”