Butterface (The Hartigans, #1)
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Gina had read about it. Did that count? Nope. Not at all.
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Who were these women who always said the right thing at the right time, and how could she learn their ways? Maybe there was an online class for the socially inept?
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he wasn’t like the rest of his family. Brusque. By the rules. No-nonsense. That was him, the boring, dark-haired, odd man out of the wild, fun-loving, rough-and-tumble Hartigans—the guy who had women sprinting away from him after a single kiss. Yeah. He was a real catch.
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They were the softest loan sharks that ever existed. Her brothers would help anyone with a sob story and give terms that didn’t involve broken legs for late payments. It wasn’t the usual route for loan sharks and that meant their profit margin sucked.
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fucking brilliant repartee in its obviousness.
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her pride was already pretty dinged up and didn’t need the extra scuffs.
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Her look was the equivalent of a shy-but-still-doing-it-anyway fuck you,
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There was just something about him that settled the frazzled worry that always seemed to be buzzing in the background of her head.
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Nopity nope nope.
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Pyrrhic
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planner is about organization, psychology, negotiation, and crisis management. Do not think for a second that coming in uninvited and thinking you could do my job without even an idea about what it entails was the right thing to do.”
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Being a grown-up really sucked some days.
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the Hartigans? They were just the best kind of a mess, and she was enjoying the hell of it.
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Cockblocked by his own mom.
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That wasn’t right.
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she redefined what beautiful could be.
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He cupped her face in his hands and took her mouth like a man who had just discovered the meaning of life, because that’s what he’d just realized. Gina. She was his meaning.
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“I want you to be mine.” It was a declaration, a promise, a prayer.
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he looked at her with an intensity that made this feel more like a claiming than fucking. Her core clenched in response, and she arched her back in invitation. It was one he didn’t turn down. He lined
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“Billionty?” Lucy giggled and took a drink of wine. “It’s the longest unit of time ever,”
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I don’t want to get a makeover. I don’t want to change my face. I just want a man who sees me and doesn’t see the ugly girl. He sees me and he loves me, not in spite of my face but in part because of it.”
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“You went to the same Catholic school that I did. Do you really think Sister Mary Helen would say that a lie of omission didn’t count if it was work-related?” “Fuck you,”
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should be out there begging and groveling and doing whatever it takes to get the woman you love to give your scrawny ass another chance.”
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it’s plain as day that it was total foolishness.”