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Author’s Note: I know everyone’s been curious as to who Ghost is. Well, here he is. I hope you love him. Oh, and don’t hate me too much for what you’re about to read. I’ve taken a few liberties here with the timeline. In reality, the couple might be a few years older than they appear in the story, but for the sake of forgiveness, I’ve shaved off a few years.
Women are like bacon. They look good, smell good and taste even better. Unfortunately, each piece will slowly kill you. -Fact of Life
I need a good fucking from something other than life. -Ghost’s secret thoughts
How’s adulting going? Well, I turned on the wrong burner and I’ve been cooking nothing for the last thirty minutes. -Being an adult sucks
I see all these moms who can do everything, and I think, ‘they should do stuff for me.’ - Mina’s secret thoughts
Tell me not to do something, and I’ll do it twice and take pictures. -Ghost’s secret thoughts
married the man who was willing to start my car for me on cold mornings. -Text from Mina to Audrey
I wish everything was as easy as getting fat was. -True shit
Some people will only love you if you fit into their box. Don’t be afraid to shove that box up their ass. -E-card
Don’t tell me you miss me. Tell me you’re outside with cupcakes. -Actions speak louder than words
minute, moved backwards to Ellen and I, and I shook my head. “Sorry, darlin’,” I told her. “I’m not saving face here only to get it fucked up when I drop you off.” Ellen started giggling. “He wouldn’t dare.” My phone buzzed, and I pulled it out of my pocket. Jessie (1344 hours): Don’t you fucking dare. I showed it to Ellen, and she had the nerve to bat her eyelashes at me.
I would marry the fuck out of you. -Coffee Cup
If you can’t handle me at my worst, I don’t blame you. I’m a fucking hot mess. -Ghost’s secret thoughts
He grinned. “I got a week out of you, though. That was four more days than Silas thought I’d get.” I grunted in reply, then walked out without another word.
Damn right I’m good in bed. I can stay there all day. -Mina’s secret thoughts
But that wasn’t the hardest part. No, not seeing the colors that I would’ve decorated my own house in. Not even the bathroom done up exactly how I’d spoken with Tunnel about doing ours. The hardest part was lying in the bed later that night, smelling my husband for the first time in forever and crying my heart out. That, my friends, was the worst.
Marriage: when dating goes too far. -Meme
If you don’t have anything nice to say, say it anyway. Sometimes motherfuckers need to hear the truth. -Ghost’s secret thoughts
“You know, I’m not sure any of the club would ever talk about you to anyone but among themselves. It wouldn’t kill you to tell them that you’re alive.” “No,” I agreed. “But knowing it might get them killed and that is not a risk I’m willing to take.” And that was that.
sides, with tears running uncontrollably down her cheeks. She knew. I knew she knew. There was no doubt now that she knew exactly what was going on. Who I was. Who I once was. I saw the moment she compartmentalized it. Saw the moment that she decided that she couldn’t do it. She walked into the house, came back out moments later, still crying might I add, and walked back to her car. All the while I watched her, a sick knot in my stomach that was on the verge of pain. She got into her car, stared at me for a few more long moments, and then backed down the road, turned it sharply like she was in
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Anybody that doesn’t agree with leggings being pants can physically fight me. And I will win because I have superior range of motion. -Meme
first saw you at the baseball park,” she whispered so quietly that I could barely hear her words. “I’d look outside at night and imagine you there.” “I was there.” “I’d look over at one of Sienna’s school functions, thinking that I felt your gaze on me…” “I was at every single one.” She closed her eyes at the raw emotion in my voice.
“I don’t care if you have to roll around on the floor to get to where you need to go, I’d love you still,” I informed her, dropping a kiss to her collarbone.
Life hadn’t given me lemons to make lemonade. It’s given me anger issues, a love for pizza and a need for retribution. -Ghost’s secret thoughts
Bless your stupid heart. -Coffee Cup
Nobody told me being a mother was just being a tiny person’s snack bitch. -Meme
“What are you doing?” I asked him, tripping over my underwear and falling back on the bed. He watched me with amusement. “I’m getting my clothes on so I can go,” he said evenly. “Why?” “You’re not leaving. If you leave, I’ll have to kill you.” His eyes shone with laughter. “That’s an awful lot of smack you’re talking when you can’t even put your underwear on while on standing up.” I flipped him off, then sat down on the bed to put my underwear on.
I’m a train wreck full of pizza, fireworks and glitter. -Text from Ghost to his wife.
My momma didn’t raise no fool. A psycho, yes, but not a fool. -Ghost’s secret thoughts
I love all of you. Except you. You know who you are, douche. -Meme
Once upon a time there was a twat. It was you. The end. -Meme
I looked at him, and his eyes were still on me. His narrowed, and I steeled myself, letting him study me straight on. He took his time, and it was a few long, uneasy moments for me. “Son of a fucking bitch!” Cleo exclaimed. Lynn walked in with Silas behind him. The minute that Lynn sat down, the entire room quieted. Conversations that the others were having quieted, and I tensed. But not because this was about to go down, but because Cleo was now standing. He leaned over the table, his hands steepled on top of it, only a few feet separating us. “I can see you’ve figured it out,” Silas drawled.
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“All this time, we thought you were gone,” he rasped. “We’ve spent many Friday nights at your grave, mourning you, and you were alive this whole time.” I stared at him gravely. “I was,” I confirmed. “But my wife and daughter’s lives trump your feelings any day.” He stared for a moment. “As they should.” Then, for a few long seconds, we stood in awkward silence as the men around me stared at my bruised and bleeding face. Then, with a suddenness that surprised me, Sebastian was in my face and taking me into a bear hug that surprised me. “Fuck, I’ve wanted to do that for a really long time now,”
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Living with her was like being in jail. I never knew if I was going to get shanked in the shower or fucked. -Ghost’s secret thoughts
It’s okay if you don’t like me. Not everyone has good taste. -Fact of Life
Ideas are born in the stroke of a beard. -Fact of Life
Beard the fuck up, then we’ll talk. -Ghost to his father
“Yeah, baby,” I rasped, then cleared my voice. “I’m your daddy.” She stared at me intently, eyes so much like my own, and smiled. It was like the fucking sun was rising right there in my goddamn heart. “I’ve missed you.”
“I used to sleep with it every night, too,” I murmured into her hair. “Why do you think she does it?” That was Mina. I turned. “What?” She smiled. “She saw that you slept with it underneath your pillow when you were still alive,” she said. “She may have been really young, but she remembered. The night that you died, she stole that and slept with it. And has been ever since.”
A beard is the difference between ‘Mr.’ and ‘Sir.’ -Fact of life
“I’m glad you’re home, Tunnel.” I pushed Rue’s hair back away from her face, then pulled her in for a kiss on her forehead. “I’m glad to be home, Rue.” “Not that I don’t think this needed to happen,” Cleo said, interrupting us. “But don’t put your lips on my wife again.” I grinned and pulled her into my arm, and she wrapped her arm back around me tightly. “Oh, Cleo,” I teased. “I can’t help it if your wife likes me better than you.” Cleo snorted. “You just keep telling yourself that.”
If you pour two beers into one glass and no one sees you, then it’s just one beer. -Pro tip
