How to Belong with a Billionaire (Arden St. Ives #3)

by Alexis Hall

“With Nathaniel, I have a chance to be someone I admire. With you, I would always be someone I despised.”

rip!

“I think,” I heard myself say, my own voice echoing distantly in my ears, “I don’t want to ever see you again.”

damn! (but valid)

And I stared into the murky grey-brown liquid, somewhat dismayed. “Um. What’s this?” “Tea?” “Are you sure?” I touched a finger to the surface, momentarily dispersing the oily film that had gathered there. “Because it looks dreadful. What did you do to it?” A flush was creeping over his cheeks. “I don’t know. I followed a WikiHow.” “You followed a…Have you really never made tea before?”

‘When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.’”

You can’t expect to live a life you’re happy to look back on and not fuck it up occasionally. It’s not the fucking up that counts. It’s what you do after.”

then he smiled. “As you wish.” Ack. Help. Melting. And all it took was a smile and a Princess Bride reference.

“Love isn’t earned, Caspian. It’s given.”

All that time, waiting like a fool for an ending. When what I’d really wanted—what we’d both needed—was a beginning.