Charming Like Us (Like Us, #7)

by Krista Ritchie

We’re all a lot of where we come from, just as much as we are the people who raised us and who we’ve met along the way.

Charlie twists the gold ring on his finger. A Faust Academy crest of a falcon and crown rest in the center. He never had to tell me, but I know that’s his father’s high school ring.

Literally everything he does is hot

oxygen before his head dips back down to me. “Then I made the right decision with this show. Aunt Lily always says she can predict love, but she has nothing on me.”

I’m sick at this

A lady shoots Donnelly a scathing glare from a picnic table. “There are kids here,” she sneers, a hand covering her daughter’s eyes. “Nah, really?” Donnelly lights a cigarette even with a can in his hand. “I just thought that was a mini adult.”

Bye

it. Unless it’s just his fantasy. Either way, all signs point to bad. So fucking bad. Luna Hale’s dad is a recovering addict. Donnelly’s entire family are meth addicts. No way will Loren Hale ever want him involved with his daughter. Too late.

Heheheheheheheh

He swipes tear tracks off his cheeks. “I sometimes think that maybe it’ll stop one day. This feeling inside me…frustration…all the fucking time.” He blinks into more tears. “But it never really goes away, and…it has to be drowned out by something stronger. Either…pain or love.”

I love the Charlie lore

“Roxanne Ruiz. She’s eighteen.” Charlie just turns forward, but I catch his smile.

Can’t wait for their book in 2045