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by
Jo Brenner
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December 13 - December 15, 2024
I couldn’t say…because you’re a mystery when no one else is, and I want to know everything about you, from the color of your panties to your nightmares. Because the minute someone knows who I am, they’ll do anything to please me because they want to use me, but you don’t. Because you checked your friend’s beer bottle without having to think about it. Because you seem to hate me, and it pisses me off but only makes me want you more.
And then when she moaned again and softened into my arms, lowering her arms to wrap around my waist, well. That was it. I was a motherfucking goner. The world shifted on its axis. Even fucking gravity disappeared. The people around us certainly disappeared. Just me and her and this raging satisfaction. Mine.
Jack slid his hand up my arm and rested it on the back of my neck in a light but threatening grip.
Then why do you want to wrap her soft body in wool and take her somewhere where she’s safe—even from you? Why are you so impressed with her strength, bravery, compassion and loyalty if you truly hate her? I fucking hated my inner voice.
She was lying. She had to be. Because if she wasn’t, then she wasn’t the one living in a house of cards. I was.