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For all the readers who think you aren’t loveable. I know you’ve hidden yourself away, you protected that spark deep inside your heart, the one that burns with the light of your true self. It’s time to let that spark ignite. The real you is exactly what the world needs.
Oh, ho. Not only was this book a romance novel, it was a really fucking dirty one.
She moved her finger to flip the virtual page, but her hand froze when I leaned forward and whispered in her ear. “Wait a second. I’m not done with that page yet.”
“Enséñales cómo se dice ‘tiene el trasero increíble pero no tiene huevos.’”
“You’re just finally playing in her league instead of trying to get her to play in yours.” My Tempest was in a league of her own. And with her, I was playing in the pee-wees. But if there was one thing I knew how to do, it was up my game. Come class next week, I was going to be on the varsity get-the-girl team.
Loving her wasn’t scary. It was the easiest, most natural thing I’d ever done.
“I want to protect her,” I admitted. “From all of it. The press, her family’s so far shitty reaction, everything.” “You can’t.” Dad’s hand squeezed my shoulder. “But you can stand with her while she faces it. You don’t need to fight someone’s battles for them. Just make sure they don’t fight alone. That’s what Kingmans do.”
“Courage isn’t the absence of fear. It’s action in the face of it.
Romance novels are—” “Joy,” Abuela interrupted firmly. “They are joy and hope and the promise that everyone deserves love. Even girls who look like us, who take up space, who have curves and opinions and don’t fit into little boxes.”
“Love is not about someone rescuing you, mi amor. It’s about having someone who stands beside you when you rescue yourself.”
“What if—” I started, then stopped, the fear too big to name. “What if you lose someone again?” Dad’s grip tightened. “You might. That’s life. But I promise you, as someone who’s been through the worst of it, the regret of playing it safe is far more painful than the grief of having loved fully.”
Don’t let fear of what might happen keep you from everything that could be.”
