Fall I Want (Cozy Creek Collection #1)

by Lyra Parish

menu. “You feel the invisible tug. I know you do. It’s written on your face.”

Roxie was wrong. I’m not off-script, I’m currently writing it. Finally, I’m in control.

“When one of us gets a sugar daddy, we all win,” Blaire says, repeating the hilarious thing we’ve said to each other since we were old enough to drive. It’s ridiculous.

It shouldn’t feel like this. It shouldn’t feel like home. It shouldn’t feel like I want to do this again and again and again. But it does.

me. Overpowering emotions streamed between us, and I swear she cast a spell on me.

pockets. “I’m afraid of growing attached then having to navigate a world without knowing you.”

“You love horror and write romance. You’re sunshine and darkness all rolled into one,” I say. “A good way to describe me.”

“Falling in love with me wouldn’t be the worst thing to happen to you, would it?” “No. Losing you would,” he says.

Just as I’m falling asleep, I think I hear him mutter, “My good fucking girl.”

“And what if all I want is you?” I finally say. He pulls away, meeting my eyes. “You have me.”

“I’m not going anywhere, Pumpkin.” “Is that a promise?” I ask, turning my head enough to meet his soft eyes. “One I’ll keep for a lifetime,” he whispers.

“You’re scared,” she says. “But you’ll say yes and it will be the greatest thing that’s ever happened to you. You’re his queen, the only woman who can sit beside him, not only as his wife, but as his equal. You’ve been waiting for confirmation that he’s the man in your dreams. He is and always has been. Twin flames. Mirrored souls.”