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my heart was trained to love whiskey long before it ever learned how to love a woman.
She laughed the way the wind blew — softly, and then all at once, without an ounce of shame for how that sound might permanently shift the atmosphere around it.
“Hey, don’t do that.” “Do what?” “Don’t act like what you want doesn’t matter.”
“If you were mine, Ruby Grace, your dreams wouldn’t come second to anything.”
He was a lightning storm, fun to watch from afar but dangerous to dance with.
there was some part of me that desired her, that needed her in whatever way I could get her.
I would have been perfectly content to stare at her, just like that, for as long as I lived. Even if I couldn’t have her, if I couldn’t kiss her or touch her or pull her into me and shield her from every unwanted harm — just looking at her was a blessing.
Because I didn’t know I was empty. Not until she poured into my life.
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’re not meant to be a puppet in some man’s sideshow, Ruby Grace. You’re meant to be his entire world.”
“No, 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.”
Kissing Ruby Grace wasn’t like kissing a normal girl. It was like kissing royalty, like kissing a goddess, like being hand-picked by the heavens to surrender your heart forever in exchange for just one, tender, earth-shattering moment.
I didn’t realize how much a person could feel like home.
Noah’s hands held my face like I was the treasure he’d hunted for his entire life and finally found.
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.
Now that I’d had her, I knew I couldn’t live in a world where I didn’t.
“You aren’t the first girl to come into my life, Ruby Grace, but you are the first girl to come into my life and leave a mark.”
“Well, if I’ve learned anything when it comes to love, it’s that it rarely follows all the rules we set in place for it.”
“Selfish. What a silly word. Should you give to the ones you love? Absolutely. But should you lose yourself in order to better their lives at the expense of your own? Never.”
