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“Listen up, Ramsey. One of these days, I’m going to get this cast off. I may look small, but I’m quiet, and I’m fast, and I know where you live. You call me Gimpy, Peg Leg, or the name of any pirate who ever lived and I will tie you up, bury you in the ditch by the old mill, and then help people search for you across town. Got it?”
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Everything happens for a reason is the biggest bullshit adage that has ever been spoken.
“After the Caskeys’ interview, she bought a billboard in downtown Clovert. Two days later, pictures of her bruises and bite marks from that night along with a few magnified lines from her medical records were plastered fourteen feet high, forty-eight feet wide for the whole town to see. She put this big black stripe across the top that said Remembering the real Josh Caskey.
But deep in my heart of hearts, it was the best kind because that was an emotion I recognized from him. Giving each other shit had been a way of life before he’d gone to prison. We loved each other fiercely, but we also loved to torment each other as if we didn’t.
“My girls tell me part of your parole means getting a job.”
He calls them his girls
God, she was a good woman. She did not deserve the life I had given her. Even, and especially, the one when I was trying not to give her anything at all.
There had been someone after me. And it hadn’t been her choice.
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Maybe that was why I’d never been able to convince her to leave. She wasn’t my Sparrow to free. I was hers.
“There was never a day when I didn’t want you to be mine, Sparrow. I just loved you enough to hope you wouldn’t have to be.”
“Easy now. There’s no crying allowed while I’m naked.” I half laughed, half sobbed. “I don’t know what’s going to happen now, and I’m so damn scared you’re going to go back to pushing me away.”
“Fucked up and in love. That’s the sweetest thing anyone has ever said to me.”
“That’s sad. And only serves as further proof to how fucked up we truly are.” We. There was a we again. One word. Two small letters. And the debilitating weight of losing my soulmate ebbed from my system.
Have to be. Have to be. Like being his was a chore or an option.
Time had changed a lot of things, but that was not one of them. Convicted felon or not, he was a good man. With good intentions. And a good heart. Unfortunately, he was so damn stupid.
“Like it or not, one day you’re going to be the man taking care of my daughter. You can thank me by doing it right.”
“My daughter loves you. There is nothing, including this, that she wouldn’t forgive you for. But you have to stop yanking her around. I commend you for trying to let her go when you were kids. A lesser man would have held on to anything and everything he could from the outside, not caring that he was dragging her through the mud in the process. But you aren’t kids anymore. And she didn’t let go. I know you’re only trying to protect her, but at this point, your indecision is what’s dragging her through the mud.”
“He told me he didn’t know how else to fix it. Like any of this was ever his to fix. I swear that boy’s heart is bigger than his brain, but that’s not the worst quality a man could have.” He blew out a ragged breath. “He didn’t choose Nora over you, Thea. He chose the person he loved who needed him the most at the time. Trust me, Ramsey would have rather spent the last twelve years with you instead of showering with a bunch of naked men.”
I mean, life starts today, right now. I’ve spent twelve years choosing you. But dammit, this time, you have to choose me.”
