More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Read between
October 6 - October 11, 2025
‘They’re unpredictable, and I feel like they’re always plotting something. And why are they always so sticky?’
Old folks were fonts of wisdom. Small children were just …wild.
‘The one thing she did say was she thought you were destined for bigger things. She didn’t want to stand in your way. Olive was her dream. She didn’t want to derail yours.’
The man was dressed in a tight white undershirt and a pair of gray sweatpants, which, as far as Iris was concerned, was the same as a woman cooking in lingerie.
Was this a pepper-spray situation? Was it a pepper-spray situation if she liked that her new boss was staring at her legs? Maybe she should pepper spray herself.
Between the accent and the hat, Archer was wondering if maybe she was a bit more Mary Poppins than he’d originally thought. But then he remembered her ass under that T-shirt and he thought maybe not.
But when everything else felt like failure, Iris’s smile felt like success. He wanted more of it.
She liked relationships like she liked her chicken wings, hot and fast.
Hadn’t Hazel ever heard of competence porn? Watching this man chop veggies had made Iris hornier than anything in a long time.
‘Okay, so I think you need to take sex off the table.’ Or do it on the table…
But none of what she did for Archer and Olive was perfect or spotless or immaculate. It was all messy. But Archer hadn’t said a word about it.
Optimistic people are overly optimistic about their ability to get somewhere on time. And they’re usually wrong.’
Was this why people wanted a partner? This feeling at the end of a rough day that they’d survived something together?
The SEX had been incredible, five stars, would recommend, but they hadn’t done it since.
‘Just because I loved them didn’t mean I could stand living with them.’
But she did know one thing, one thing she’d somehow managed to forget. She may not have had a father, but she’d always had a family who loved her. Her mom and aunt and Bex, their own little female-only commune. Iris knew how to be part of a family.
