I Temporarily Do (Cordially Invited #1)

by Ellie Cahill

I didn’t hit on you because of your name, then I married you for the same reason four years later.”

“It’s times like this I miss your mom the most. She would have known what to say.”

“It’s too short to waste on people who don’t give as much as they get. And it’s way too short to waste on not going after what you want because you’re scared.”

You were what made us us.”

“Yeah, and I’m sorry if that’s too fucking much for you right now, but I didn’t tell you how I felt when we met, and I didn’t tell you how I felt when we got married, or when we fucking slept together, for god’s sake, and that’s just bullshit. I’m in fucking love with you, and I want to be with you, and you make me really god damn happy, and if it’s just me, then I guess that’s gonna have to be how it is, because I can’t change it, and I’m really fucking tired of hiding it. I’m in love with you, okay?”