From Lukov with Love

by Mariana Zapata

runt,” before he’d gone off toward the changing

Ok lets remember youre a 20 y/o and shes 16

Those gray-blue eyes lazily blinked before he said, “You can pay for half if you want.” I wasn’t that prideful. So I blinked right back at him. “Nope.”

Thank you! Finally an mc that does this

“I’ve never seen you so squirmy before, and I don’t know if it’s annoying or kind of cute.”

It has started besties

Ivan raised his eyebrows after turning to me. “Can I use the bathroom?”

Respect. Hes using every chance lmao

He made a face, his attention going in the direction of the laughter. “Shouldn’t you go tell them hi first?”

i love how he's trying to introduce himself to her family

I introduced them both, not sure what to do with the way Ivan blinked slowly before finally taking a step forward and saying, “Nice to meet you” like a normal, polite human being.

This is so cute i can literally imagine him practicing this

“You’re my fourth favorite figure skater,” James said, shooting me a wink. Fourth? Even Jojo wondered the same thing. “Who’s one through three?” “Jasmine.” “Two and three?” “Jasmine.” My dead heart gave a little burn of emotion, and if I was the kind of person to blow someone a kiss, I would have done it to him. “I’d push you out of the way if you were about to get run over,” I told him and meant it. He smiled and winked at me again. “I know you would, Jas.”

I love this whole interaction

“There’s my Meatball,”

MY. HES GONE

Oh well. Let them judge. I had nothing to prove to people who didn’t matter or mean anything to me.

“Am I invited to dinner tonight?” Ivan’s question came from behind me.

I'm screaming

“You’re my friend, Jasmine. Not just my fucking partner. Don’t give me that bullshit.”

“I want you to be safe because you matter to me. You think I bring my partners to my house? You think I let them into my life? You think I spend time with their families? I don’t, and I never have. I learned my lesson when I was a teenager and my partner tried to blackmail my family by saying they paid for us to win our junior events. That’s why I do contracts now, to keep it professional. I don’t ever want to be as unhappy as I was after my first partner did those things to my family and me. But you….”

THANK YOU FOR FINALLY BEING A CHARACTER THAT SAYS THESE THINGS AND DOESNT JUST STAY SILENT😭

“You. Matter. To. Me. You. I couldn’t forgive myself if something happened to you because of me,” he kept going, his voice rising. “I’ve known you since you were a little kid, helping my sister off the ice when she fell. You didn’t treat her different because of her last name like everyone else did. You didn’t ask her about me. You and Karina just picked each other. I know the things you did for her, she told me. She told all of us about Jasmine Santos who isn’t scared of anybody. About Jasmine who doesn’t like unicorns because she likes Pegasus, because they can fly. “I wanted you to be my partner for years, dumbass. When Karina had told me you were thinking about switching to pairs, I had thought you would say something to me, even in passing as a joke. I thought you would say you were going to kick my ass, and I had planned on talking to you over it. But you never did. The next thing I knew, you had a partner. Some dipshit that wasn’t half as good as you.”

Oh my goodness

I froze, realizing where the hell I was and what the hell Mrs. Lukov would see and think, and was about to take a step back when the arms around me grew tighter.

😭😩😭

His hand was shaking. Why was his hand shaking?

Bc he loves u so much he’s scared of anything happening to u 😭

“I love you so much I spend all day with you, and it still isn’t enough for me,”