Not Part of the Plan (Blue Moon, #4)

by Lucy Score

“Hands off, Big Bad Wolf. I’m no one’s Red Riding Hood.” And with those parting words, she ducked out of his grasp and sauntered down the stairs. There was a little extra sway to her hips that Niko hoped she put there just to torture him.

Cringe

“When my mom died, the funeral home suggested we pull together our favorite pictures of her so they could be displayed at the viewing.” He leaned forward, elbows on knees. “I dug through every album we had. Mom was the amateur photographer of the family. There were hundreds of shots of me, dozens and dozens of my father and me. Christmases, birthdays, first days of school. But nothing of her. “My father and I never thought of picking up the camera and turning it around on her.

“We’d been lucky enough to have this wonderful, amazing woman in our lives, and neither of us ever thought to document her. To capture and keep her moments. And we lost the chance to when we lost her.”

“Future or no future, there’s no point in toning yourself down for any guy. Got it? Say what you want to say. Do what you want to do, regardless. Otherwise you’re just building a house on a shaky foundation. You know?”