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

by Lucy Score

“I’m a fixer. You confided a problem in me, and now it gives me great joy to force solutions on you until the problem is solved.”

“Don’t be afraid of pain, or less-than-perfect, daughter of mine. That’s where the real joy comes from. Life gets its color from challenges and adversity. You can’t plan your way to happiness, you know.”

“I come from a woman who loved pills and booze more than her own kids. That’s in me. She made me.” Emma laid her hands on Reva’s shoulders. “You aren’t your parents any more than any of us are. My mom left, too. And I take great pleasure in not being her. It doesn’t matter who made you. It matters what you choose to be.”

“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?”

Emma patted a hand over her racing heart. “The things you do for me,” she said on a sigh. “Almost as good as the things I plan to do to you.” His devil’s grin had her laughing.

“I believe in the kind of feeling that stops you dead in your tracks and changes everything you ever believed. I believe in a love so swift and sure that it knocks the wind right out of you and leaves you lying on your back staring up at the sky wondering what just hit you.” Her lips parted, but no words came out. “I believe in an ever after that isn’t even a choice because you can’t imagine your life without the woman in front of you.”

Family wasn’t just blood and biology it was a commitment. A hard-headed refusal to accept anything but the best for the ones you chose and the ones you were gifted.

“I want to choose you every damn day. Even when it’s hard. Even if one of us wants to give up. I want to fight and win and love you. I want to do this every day for the rest of my life.”