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“Gran always said you’ll be amazed what you can do when you have no other options.
Hendrix I don’t know, man. Serena Kingston is a fucking smoke show. I wouldn’t mind being her pet project.
I understand needing to be a responsible adult . . . but seriously. Every day? Like every single day? That seems a bit excessive.
My mother did not raise a quitter. She did, however, raise someone who has a flair for dramatics mixed with a teeny, tiny attitude problem. —Addie’s Secret Thoughts
Caitlin You say potato. I say vodka. Bellamy You’re insane.
But something was there . . . Not just attraction, but something else. Something bigger. Stronger. Insistent. Something I don’t just want to explore, I need to. Have to.
And he’s looking past Bellamy with his eyes locked on mine, like he’s the predator and I’m the prey . . . I shouldn’t like it. It should absolutely set my nerves on edge. So why doesn’t it?
She needs air to fill her lungs and books to fill her soul.
I look back at the house in front of me and wonder when hanging with my brother and friends instead of Addie and the girls became my second choice.
Dust settles. Queens don’t. Keep fighting because there is no other choice. —Addie’s Secret Thoughts
Fuck it. I pick up the bottle of wine and decide if momma can’t get laid, at least she can get drunk.
“We can make this so believable, you won’t feel like you’re lying, Adelaide.” His words are quiet and confident. Powerful. “I promise.”
Start over. Start late. Start scared. Just start. The first step is always the hardest. —Addie’s Secret Thoughts
“Because Adelaide . . .” I breathe her in and slow down. “The minute I laid my eyes on you, I knew you were everything. Somehow, I just knew it. And I knew you were supposed to be mine. You and those girls. But you were never going to let me prove it. This way, I can show you why.”
“I don’t know if I’m capable of trusting again, Leo . . .” She closes her eyes for a moment, and when they open, there’s a fire there that was missing before. “But I think if I was ever going to try to trust someone, it would be you.”
Leo may want everyone to think he’s easy. Simple. But there’s so much more to him than that. And I think I’ve only just scratched the surface.
Putting a kid to bed who claims she isn’t tired is like putting to bed that one drunk friend we’ve all had. First there’s the refusal. She will not go to bed. She doesn’t need sleep. Then there’s the request for water, and different pajamas because hers feel itchy, followed by begging for you to lay with them. Tossing and turning and some weird yoga-like positions. And finally, she’s asleep. Upside down with her head at the foot of the bed, one leg under a cover and her arm around her teddy bear. But sleeping so I’ll take it.
“Be sure, wife. Because once you give yourself to me, I’m never giving you back.”
“I’m not sure if I’m ever going to be able to give you more than that, Leo.” I run my lips over hers. “I’ll never ask you for more than you can give me.”
“When you come, it’s with my name on your lips, wife.” Fuck. That shouldn’t be so damn hot. But it really, really is.
baggage is baggage, whether it’s Louis Vuitton or Walmart brand.
“One day, you’re going to accept that you’re mine to take care of, wife.”
Once upon a time . . . She made it the fuck through . . . The end. —Addie’s Secret Thoughts
Life has its ups and downs. Probably the only squats I do. —Addie’s Secret Thoughts
Speak your truth and own it. Even if your voice shakes. —Addie’s Secret Thoughts
She didn’t survive the storm. She became it. —Leo’s Secret Thoughts
