Dirty Like Me (Dirty, #1)
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“I can’t be famous for fucking a rock star,” she said, calmly,
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“I can’t be your fake girlfriend anymore. It’s just… kind of killing me.” “I don’t want you to be my fake girlfriend,”
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“I just need to figure out what the fuck I’m doing with my life and I can’t do it like this.”
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I didn’t even want to ask her what “like this” meant. My heart was freefalling into my guts.
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You don’t need to worry about it. I’ll be okay.” “Fuck that.”
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it was getting harder to breathe by the second. Did she really not get it? “I care about you.” “No, Jesse,” she said. “You care about record sales.”
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“I’m so sorry,” she said. “This isn’t your fault. I should never have agreed to this. I can’t just follow you around while you work and follow your dream—”
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It’s not who I am. I’m not a groupie. I’m not your wife. I’m not even your girlfriend. This is just a job. And I quit.”
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“Goodbye, Jesse Mayes.”
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It was seventeen hours since Katie walked out and I was falling apart. I’d barely eaten. I hadn’t even slept.
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“Anyway, it was me.”
Stephanie C.
WTF BRODY????
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“Anyone can see you’re in love with her.”
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They were hot to spin this whole love triangle thing and I said yes. That’s all. They think she was hired as your assistant.
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“And now she’s gone.” “She’s not gone, brother. She’s home. She’ll be here when you get back.”
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You’ve just got to accept that. The guy is an entitled prick and he always will be. You’d do much better leaving him in your rearview, like permanently, babe.”
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And if I thought it hurt when Josh left me, that was nothing compared to this. This was heartbreak in slow motion.
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My heart lurched into my throat. There was a man standing in the doorway
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Brody headed over
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“Jesse writes music with his sister?” Brody glanced over at me. “She’s a fantastic lyricist. She co-wrote most of the songs on Sunday Morning.”
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“I had no idea.” “I guess there’s a lot you don’t know. Maybe you should stick around, find out some more.”
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“Why didn’t she keep writing with Dirty?”
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Wanted something of her own.” Something of her own. Shit. That was the same thing I told Jesse I wanted when I left him in L.A..
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Jesse doesn’t need more money or more fame, Katie. He just wants to keep bringing Jessa’s lyrics to the world. That’s what this album was about.”
Stephanie C.
AWWWWW
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“He’s afraid if we can’t get her back for the music, we’ll never get her back.”
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“Do you think she’ll come back?” “No,”
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We were getting closer to the very familiar mega-mansion where I knew I’d find Josh.
Stephanie C.
Ma'am Why
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It would be truly brave to take a chance on loving someone again—and give him a chance to love me back.
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I just had to get Jessa to come home.
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Then she held me out at arm’s length and said, “I’m not coming back.”
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There was something desperately wrong with his sister. I could see it. No, I could feel it.
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“Can you get me to Elle?”
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What r u doing, Katie? I answered, Just something I need to do. Then do it and come home to me.
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she’d pulled a Houdini on Flynn at the airport when they landed and I was going out of my mind. If she was avoiding me this fucking hard, it didn’t exactly bode well for me ever getting to talk to her again.
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the time apart had given me crystal fucking clarity. It had also scared the shit out of me. What if she decided she really didn’t want this? Didn’t want me?
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I’d missed every fucking thing about her.
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stepping a little closer. I wanted to reach out and grab her, pull her to me and never let her go.
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She looked at me, and it cracked my heart a little, the uncertainty and the disappointment on her face.
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“Babe, you have history. And he broke your heart.” “I didn’t want him to break my heart.” “No one wants a broken heart, sweetheart.”
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Kissing her was all I’d wanted to do since she walked out in L.A..
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I hated playing those last three shows without you. It felt… wrong.”
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She wanted more, but she wasn’t asking for it, either. Maybe she was afraid I’d never give it? Which was insane, because I’d give this girl the fucking world.
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She thought I was gonna use her up and spit her out, dump her by the roadside?
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“You went to see my sister,” he said. “I went to see yours.”
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I believe in you. And I believe in your talent.”
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I didn’t pay you to have sex with me.” “I know, but—” “I didn’t pay you to love me, either.”
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“Katie. I’m trying to tell you. I love you, too.”
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Katie, I’ve never loved anyone, ever, like I love you.”
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I fucking love you and I should’ve told you that a long time ago,”
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“You’re always on my mind. You’re in everything I do. I could barely even get through the end of the tour without you there. It just didn’t seem to matter anymore
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Katie Bloom, will you marry me?”
Stephanie C.
NO FUCKING WAY