Crave (The Gibson Boys, #3)

by Adriana Locke

“You can’t help who you love. But you can help how much you let them hurt you.”

I’m bound to this woman by scars etched on both our hearts; scars we share with only each other.

“I asked him to marry me once. He rejected me, so that won’t be happening again.”

“I’m here to figure out how to make peace with you. I fell in love with you when I was a little girl, and I can’t seem to find a place in my heart to love anyone else.”

“You are wanted,” I whisper, looking into her soul as deeply as I can. “You’re all I’ve ever wanted, love.”

“Forgive him for hurting you, okay? And accept him for who he is. Not because he’s worth it or deserves it, but because you do.”

“When I look at you, I don’t just see the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen. I see the next sixty years of my life.”

love you more, Hadley. Not more than you love me, but more than all our fights and disagreements. I love you more than the bad days and the bullshit we’ll have to go through in life. Because if I have to go through it, I don’t want to do it without you.”

Mom used to say blessings weren’t always pretty. That sometimes they came hidden, and you had to pluck them out of the ugly and use them.