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“Say the word, Colorado, and I will selflessly provide you with a much-needed distraction.”
Cute
A dimple I’d never seen appeared in one cheek.
“It was just a game.” Truth or Dare. He was right. It was just a game. So why did I feel like someone had slapped me?
“You deserve better.”
A girl he could never deserve.
“You’re nothing like Locke.”
“My father made me watch.”
Omg. My poor boy😭
But no one even knows you’re alive.
But I would waltz into hades and make nice with the devil himself for Dean, so either you put on the damn dress or you get the hell out of my way.”
‘To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.’
‘If you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.’
Most people built walls to protect themselves. Dean did it to protect everyone else.
We love Dean💗
“She can stay,”
Love him
After a small eternity,
letter R.
Omg
He was taking his frustrations with me out on this car.
She just hadn’t needed one in a very long time.
shared Judd’s last name.
But he didn’t. And I didn’t.
Cassie’s not going.” The two of them spoke in unison.
Someday, I was fairly certain that Lia would write a book entitled Making an Awkward Situation Worse.
“Okay, I’m calling it,” Michael announced when the quiet got to be too much. “I’m turning on the radio. There will be singing. I would
not be opposed to car-dancing. But the next person whose facial expression approaches ‘brood’ is getting punched in the nose. Unless it’s Cassie. If it’s Cassie, I punch Dean in the nose.”
saying each word like it didn’t matter—because if he let it, it would matter too much.
Dean was worth caring about only because Dean was his.
he’d done it for Dean.
This was hurting him.
“Touch her again,” Michael told Christopher conversationally, “and Dean will be the one trying to pull me off of you.”
he never stopped referring to Emerson by name.
Inside the bag was a single playing card—the king of spades.
hard enough that I wasn’t sure she’d ever let go.
The same thing Locke wanted from me.
I would have defended myself.”
And you deserve to smile.
“Don’t think about something that makes you feel small and scared and like you’re stuck in a tunnel with no light at the end.”
“To be making jokes about killing me?” I asked dryly. “Never.”
“I know,” he said. “I know that you care about him. I know that you’re attracted to him. I know that when he hurts, it hurts you. I know that he never looks at you the way he looks at Lia, that you’re not a sister to him. I know that he wants you. He’s in over his head with you. But I also know that half the time, he hates that he wants you.”
“I don’t just want you.” Now both of his hands were on my face. “I want to want you.”
He expected to be disappointed.
Michael was right. I was scared. I was scared of my own emotions, scared of wanting and longing and loving. Scared of hurting either one of them.
It was ironic—I’d saved Agent Sterling’s life by breaking the rules, and she’d saved mine by following them.
or Dean from crossing the remaining space between us in a heartbeat.
The next second, he had a hand on each of my shoulders, touching me, confirming that I was okay, that I was here, that I was real.
I may have arranged it so that I was in his car when he went to leave.”
Dean is endgame
“I was wrong,” he said, “when I said I just felt something.” He was breathing heavily. I couldn’t breathe at all. “When I said I wasn’t sure it was enough.”
Omg
Dean pulled me gently toward him. His lips brushed lightly over mine. The action was hesitant, uncertain. My hands settled on the back of his neck, pulling him closer.
Finally
couldn’t keep living my life on maybes if I wanted to live.
until there was only this moment—one that I hadn’t thought I’d live to see.
They had to pry Dean away from me.
I’d known that choosing would mean losing one of them. I just hadn’t imagined losing Michael like this.
