Look After You (Look After You, #1)

by Elena Matthews

Every parent hopes and wishes for the perfect pregnancy with zero complications and for the perfect baby. Nobody ever contemplates the worst possible pregnancy outcome until it actually happens to you.

want more than anything to be able to kiss you, to blow every other kiss you’ve ever had out of the water,

I can’t remember a time when darkness wasn’t a part of me.

tragedy has always been close behind, reminding me that I can never truly be happy.

the moment I laid eyes on you, I couldn’t breathe.

love that uncertainty about her; that she has no idea how incredible and perfect she is.

“You don’t even realize how beautiful you are, do you?”

“You’re amazing, so fucking beautiful. I would marry you in a heartbeat. I love you.

it feels as though I’ve known you my whole life.

You’ve opened up to me, in a way you haven’t ever ...

How can he love you, when he doesn’t even kno...

Not like I do. I ...

and I know you lov...

“You feel guilty because it isn’t in your nature to be cruel. I said I wouldn’t kiss you, that I wouldn’t break up your family, that I couldn’t be that guy, but I’ve changed my mind. I will be that guy since your guy is doing a shit-ass job of protecting you, of loving you. I ...