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“You plan to apologize, right?” Jimmy asked, ignoring me. “It’s important to do that, even if you don’t think you did anything wrong,” Vinny added.
“This whole time, Junior?” “I needed to know you were okay, Lo.”
I’m not going to ghost you again. Anything that happens from here on out, I’ll talk to you about it first. But you should know, because of what I do, making plans is hard.”
“Let me know if you need a character witness. I would love to lie to a judge.” “I’ll hold you to that,” I told her. “I’m really sorry,” she said, sobering. “That’s a terrible position for a parent to put their child in, and I hate that he’s doing it to you.”
Age disgracefully was her motto.
“Just because you’ve done bad things doesn’t mean you’re not worthy of my empathy.”
I don’t want to clip your wings, Lo. I want to see you fly.”
none of it was about control. He’d done it all to protect me, to make my life easier, better, and I wasn’t in danger of falling into the same trap my mother had.
“That’s me, a real gentleman. Grab her hand in the streets and her hair in the sheets.”
“What if I said I want something more than casual?” I stilled beneath the weight of his gaze, digging deep and trying to find courage, trying to ignore the memories of how badly he’d once hurt me. “I’m scared,” I confessed. He tipped forward, pressing our foreheads together. “I know. We can take it as slow as you need.”
“Your happiness means more to me than my freedom.
