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When you find exactly what you want, you will want to and it’ll feel like home. What I found with your father when we were twenty-five is rare. It happens when it happens and it’ll happen for you, too. But in the meantime, live your life for you first and then find someone who fulfills you like life fulfills you. Don’t worry about settling down. Worry about settling in.” “Settling in?” “Settling in to your life.” Her smile widened. “Enjoying what God has blessed you with.”
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“Do not let someone else’s bullshit stand in the way of what you want.”
“I only spend time with people I enjoy. I only do things I want to do. I only have sex with people who get me off. So, my time is never wasted, and my energy stays high.”
“I wasn’t going to take your man,” she sputtered. “The only thing you could take from me is notes.”
I cackled. “No. It wasn’t that deep. I could’ve let it go, but I didn’t want to.” I lifted my shoulders. “I might be fat, but I’ll never be the bigger person.”
He’d always fucked me like he had gotten his degree in my pleasure and graduated summa cum laude.
“When I say you’re my escape, I mean you’re my freedom.” He cupped my face. “When I say you’re my escape, I mean I can be myself with you.” His mouth hovered over mine. “When I say you’re my escape, I mean that whenever and wherever we’re together, it’s the only place I want to be.”
“I’ve never craved someone like I crave you. I’ve never wanted to be in a relationship before I said yes to you. You have burned your way into my heart, and these last couple of weeks…” I shook my head slightly and then rested my forehead against his. “I’ve never had someone’s absence feel as distinct as their presence.”
“Just know that I’m not losing you or my business. I’ve worked too hard to build this company. And I’ve waited too long to find you.”
“You have a fitting at six o’clock tomorrow morning.” He searched my face for a moment. “You’re walking in the show.”
“Nina, I was never running away from work and life. I was only ever running toward you.”
Russell Long was the manifestation of the love I always knew existed, but thought would be impossible to find. I’d been fostering men until they found their forever home. It never occurred to me that they were also fostering me until I found mine.
