Hot Shot (North Ridge, #3)

by Karina Halle

“I can’t do everything!” she snapped at him. “You make your own waffles, you take care of Shane, you take care of everyone. You’re the oldest, it’s your responsibility now.”

…he’s in kindergarten, poor baby

Finally, John said, “I’ll go tell him to be quiet.” Though John was only four, he liked the baby a lot and was often wanting to talk to him and be around him. “Good,” their mother said, her voice so absent of life that it sent chills down Fox’s spine. “I’m going to go pick some flowers.”

PPD is such a cruel, horrible thing for everyone involved

“It was the baby that did it,” the one woman said. “Baby Shane. They should have seen the signs.” “They should have. Even I knew she wasn’t well. She should have never had that child, they were struggling with that ranch enough as it was,” said the other.

Gossip spreads like fire among old women, how disrespectful of these fake people in this fictitious world

For a moment I think of calling him Avocado

My baby sister had an axolotl named Avocado, he was adorable

But with the Nelsons, their loss was much greater than mine. My father never died. He just left. Of course I’ve dealt with abandonment issues growing up, but there was a time in my teens where he reached out to talk to me, tried to be a part of my life again and I said no. I didn’t need him. At least I didn’t at the time, fueled by teenage pride.

My birth mother never died either, just is a drug junkie and abandoned my brothers and I when I was 4. As selfish as it is, I wish she had died. She lived on the same tiny 7 mile Long Island as me for most of my life(until I got married and moved) but would turn the other direction if she saw me. My Dad got remarried to a woman who ended up adopting me and she’s filled the gaps in some ways but I think I’ll always grieve the person I could have been if my birth mom was normal.

“Delilah, I hate to tell you this but your jeans have holes in them. Did you wrestle with a steer or what?”

Oh look, my grandpa’s in this book too. So immersive

Then there’s the fact that I’ve just been feeling off lately.

Uh-oh, 10/10 times someone says they don’t feel good in a romance novel they’re pregnant

The last thing I want is for the whole town to have something new to gossip about and I know it’s no longer the 1950’s where couples are punished for having children (or even sex) out of wedlock

Small towns are stuck in the 1950’s. My old pharmacist still talks about the time I dated a black guy in highschool(the horror)

I’m going to be a rotten father.

Probably

“Because if you had cheated on Del while you were here, I would personally beat your face in with my boot.”

Shane is the MVP of this whole series

“She needs to get with the times,” Simon says. “Half the marriages out there are loveless. My parents are a great example of that.”

Not what we should strive for guys

“Can I get some water?” He reaches over and grabs a cup of ice off the stand beside me. “I think you can have ice chips,”

Me and hospital ice chips have a very complicated relationship

“Mommy?” Emily asks as she toddles into the kitchen. “Yes, sweetie?” “Do you think I could have some anal beads?”

I- I’m sorry…what