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By failing to prepare, you prepare to fail,
“One of those apps. Bundle or Timber?” “Bumble and Tinder,”
“Be wild. Because life is lived in the moments you don’t see coming. Not in the comfort of predictability, but in the thrill of the unknown.”
There was comfort in being underestimated. We were constantly set to impress everyone.
Tess was a chest of doubloons, waiting for an eternity under a waterfall, just waiting for someone to find her. To open her up and admire her riches. And I was the greedy pirate she’d accused me of being. I’d found her, and as far as I was concerned, that made her mine.
“To all that’s old and new,” I said, smiling down at my mother. “May we be immortalized by the deeds we do and the love we give.”
light up. I wanted to surprise her, wanted to give her the unexpected. I wanted to discover her, and I wanted to live in every little joy that discovery would bring. But I wanted more than just that.
I wanted to be the man she didn’t believe me to be.
He would be charming and gorgeous and would kiss me like I was the only woman on the planet.
“I’m not asking you to promise anything. I don’t want anything to change. All I know is when I walk through that door, it’s your face I look for. Every night when we say goodbye, I don’t want to go. And I don’t know what that means besides this: I don’t want to be your fling, Tess.” “Say it again,” she said softly. With a smile, I looked deeper into her eyes. “I don’t want to be your fling. I want to be your everything.”
I’d kissed her a hundred times. In the dark and in the sunshine. Gently and with demand. I’d kissed her greedily, and I’d kissed her with adoring care.
“What are you gonna do with me now?” “Oh, I have an idea or two,” I said, bringing my lips to hers to steal a kiss and seal a promise. I was about to boyfriend the fuck out of Tess Monroe.
“How do you do that?” “What?” “Make me feel like I’m the only woman in the world.” My hand cupped her jaw, my eyes holding hers still. “Because you are.” And I kissed her to prove it.
Luke was full of vitality and possibility, his spark igniting something in me that I hadn’t known existed—adventure. Spontaneity. Joy in the unknown.
It was the Luke Bennet special—getting me out of my box whether I wanted to or not.
Don’t sacrifice your future just because you’re afraid. Sacrifice your fear for hope.”
Uncertainty is part of life. Have faith.
But as long as I have you, nothing else matters.
