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“My.” Thrust. “Sweet.” Thrust. “Boy.”
I really, really fucking like waking up with him right there.
And I realize—as I stroke his face and pull him closer to wrap my arms around the back of his neck so we can kiss more intimately in that glowing comedown—that I do love him.
To fall in love for the first time, with Raine, of all people, is probably the stupidest thing I could ever do.
Being with Kayce? He shows me a different way of being. Something brighter.
The cowboy who owns my heart . . . even if I’m too shit scared to admit that to him, or anyone else.
My entire fucking heart is ready to explode when he immediately places a kiss against my chest. The first thing he does when waking up from a bad dream is to curl into me. To feel safe enough to give me that. If I didn’t already know that I’ve got both feet in this thing with him, that just sealed it for me.
I love being at his side. I love being the person he can turn to. I’m in love with him.
“I’ll always be here to protect you.”
“You’re right here in my goddamn heart, baby.” I give in, dragging him against me so that I can tuck his head into the crook of my neck and brush my mouth against his ear. “This is where you are. No matter whether you piss me off, or leave me ready to toss you over my shoulder, or be so goddamn in love with you I don’t know how to breathe. That’s who you are. You’re better than this, and I believe that you’ll figure out you’re worthy of being loved by someone one day. Trust that I’m gonna be out there hoping like hell you might want that guy to be me.”
“Maybe one day you’ll let me love you the way you deserve.”
“You give me life, Kayce. You’ve shown me there’s a way to move on from the hurts of a past we shared . . . you’re stronger than I am, because you got back up each time. I’m so proud of you, and I didn’t always know how to say those words.”
“Snowflakes are beautiful,” he murmurs against my mouth. “You think I’m . . .” It’s mostly just choked-up noises, rather than words coming out of me. “Beautiful?” He hums. A rich, life-giving sort of vibration that pours forth to fill my veins. “Of course I do. You’re so goddamn beautiful, my sweet boy.”
In that moment, the cracks heal, the chasm closes over, and I’m more whole than I’ve ever felt before.
I blindly seek out his mouth, his lips, holding him there as we melt into each other. As I fall even deeper in love with the man I don’t ever want to be parted from again.
All I want is Kayce filling my entire life. No matter what I have to do to make that happen.