Principles of Spookology (The Spectral Files, #2)

by S.E. Harmon

“Of course I love you. More importantly, I like you.” “I think you need a refresher course on the difference between love and like.” “I know what love is, Rainstorm.” He leaned over and dropped a kiss on my downturned mouth. “Love is this unstoppable force that you have very little control over. Sometimes you love the people that you shouldn’t. Sometimes you love people who’ve hurt you over and over again.” I knew he was thinking of his parents—his birth mother, the drug addict, who’d been more concerned with scoring her next hit than taking care of her children. And his father, a volatile tempered man who’d been in prison most of Danny’s life for homicide. When it came to picking parents, Danny had pulled two Joker’s Wild from the deck. He shook his head, as if shaking off the past was that easy. “That’s love for you. Making decisions all on its own. I don’t have any say in that. I love you because my heart says so.” He sent me a crooked smile. “I like you because I say so.” For that alone, I could forgive him for shaking me out of bed at the crack of dawn to get bitch slapped by a guru. #Neverforgetthough.