Don’t Puck the Wrong Brother (Don't Puck Around #1)

by Kate Olivia

"Not everything is going to be perfect. At least not all the time. We can have perfect moments but difficult circumstances. Or perfect circumstances and difficult moments."

"Someone who overthinks everything but still follows her heart when it counts. Someone who holds herself to impossible standards but doesn't judge others by the same measure. Someone who's afraid of taking chances but is sitting here with me anyway."

"You made it very clear what it says about me, Cade. I’m a ‘whore’, remember? And you know what? All of this can't just be forgotten. You lied to me, made me think you were home when you weren't. Then you called me a whore when I broke up with you. I broke up with you because it was the right thing to do!"

"Fuck it," I whisper. I pull his neck down and rise on my tiptoes to press my lips against his.

"But sometimes the complicated things are the ones most worth pursuing."

Because that's the truth I've been avoiding. I'm not good for her. My track record speaks for itself—a string of hookups with no follow-through, a reputation as the puck boy,

"I'm falling in love with you, Hannah Porter," I interrupt, the words flowing now that I've started. "Maybe I've already fallen. And it terrifies me because I've never felt this way before, never been this vulnerable with anyone. But I'd rather be scared with you than feeling safe with anyone else."

Life doesn't follow outlines or rulebooks. It's messy and unpredictable, full of wrong turns that lead to unexpected destinations. But some wrong turns, I'm beginning to believe, are actually the universe course-correcting. Putting us where we need to be, even if it's not where we thought we were going.

Sometimes life's best prizes come disguised as its worst mistakes. Sometimes perfect moments emerge from imperfect circumstances. And sometimes, when you least expect it, you find exactly what you need in the last place you thought to look.