Protecting What's Mine (Benevolence, #3)

by Lucy Score

“There’s no shame in not knowing how to do something. There’s no shame in learning and trying. Shame never works as a motivator.”

“I’m sorry for possibly coming close to maybe almost overreacting.”

“So I thought I wanted to be a coroner or a mortician,” Samantha said, swinging her legs from her perch on the stretcher. Kids. “Uh-huh.” Samantha gave her a cool look. “I know it seems weird. But everyone dies. It’s job security.”

Feelings are feelings whether you’re eighteen or eighty.”

“Fear makes people act like dumbasses,” Gloria said. “It’s not an excuse. But it’s a reason.”

“You’re my hero, Dreamy.” “You’re mine, Hotshot.”