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“So you’ve never had a sip of alcohol in your life?” I challenged. She bit her lip. “I mean… I have, but not whiskey. That’s a man’s drink.” At that, I full on belly-laughed. “What the hell kind of talk is that? Whiskey is a man’s drink?” I shook my head. “It’s whiskey. It’s expensive whiskey, at that. And I assure you, it’s delicious — whether you have tits or not.”
“I used to think she’d remarry, find someone else eventually. But, after the first full year of her playing this song every night, I knew I was wrong.” I followed his gaze, throat tightening at the sight of Mom and Logan dancing around the living room to Eric Clapton’s “Wonderful Tonight.”
“Fuck you, Noah Becker.” “I’m sure you’d like to, sweetheart. But, not tonight.”
“I liked you like that today.” She frowned, turning to me, then. “Like what?” “I don’t know,” I started with a shrug. “Carefree. Young. Unrestrained. You’re always so put together.” I paused. “I like it better when you’re just a girl being a girl.”
“You are the heroine just as much as he is the hero,” I reminded her. “And if he loves you, he will support you and your dreams just as you’ve supported his and will continue to in the future.”
And I just sat there, hands on the steering wheel, eyes on my passenger seat, and heart somewhere down the road with a girl who didn’t even realize she had it.
You are more than your eyes, and your hair, and your strawberry smoothie lips and long, lean legs. You’re not meant to be a puppet in some man’s sideshow, Ruby Grace. You’re meant to be his entire world.”
you see me with your soul.” She swallowed, eyes flicking up to mine before they fell back to my mouth. “And I feel you with mine.”
If he was a dream, I would sleep, just so I could keep him a little longer. I’d sleep, and maybe — just maybe — I’d wake on a day where I got to keep him forever.
