More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
“No, I think you do exactly what they tell you to, even if you know they’re making a mistake. I’m guessing you don’t suffer fools gladly, and if someone acts superior, I bet you completely dismiss them.”
He told me that life was hard, and if I expected it to be easy, I was bound to be disappointed and disillusioned. He taught me that having true friends was more important than having money, and treating others with respect was the measure of a good man. Most of all, he taught me that when the time came, and I found a woman I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, that my job was to protect her . . . not because she’s weak, but because she’s important enough to be protected.”
Family isn’t necessarily a matter of blood relation. It’s the people who would bend over backward to help you, no matter what time it is or if they have to drive a thousand miles to get to you.”
I deserve to be with someone who will bend over backward to keep me safe and protect me. Not because I’m weak, but because I’m important enough to them that they can’t help but do anything differently.”
“You judge people by how they treat you, not by what they look like, the color of their skin, or their past. It’s one of the things everyone around here really likes about you. So I have to wonder . . . why are you that way with your friends, but not your man?”
He’d taken one step on the rotting stairs when he heard the most frightening thing he’d ever heard in his thirty-six years. A scream that made the hair on his arms stand straight up. Skylar. And she was in big trouble. Gripping his pistol tighter, Bull gave up all pretense of being quiet. Skylar needed him, and he’d be damned if he took even a second longer to get to her.
