Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters, #3)

by Talia Hibbert

It sounds like your dream broke, and you’ve been picking up shattered pieces and blaming yourself when your hands bleed.”

Bloody shitting hell. He was in love with her. How goddamn inconvenient.

“Your abilities,” he said slowly, “lie in the places people usually overlook. So you’ve been convinced you don’t have any at all. But you’re smart, and you’re capable, and if people struggle to see that, it’s their problem, not yours.”

“My only excuse is that I—I love you. I love you so much and I was kind of terrified, because when you love someone, everything hurts a thousand times more. And I have all this shit in my head, shit that pops up at the worst time and makes me think the sky is falling. I—sometimes I find it difficult to believe that anyone could want me as much as I want them. Never mind someone as amazing as you. And I let that get the better of

me. But I’m working on that, because it hurt you, and the one fucking thing I refuse to do is hurt you.”

“You are so brave and you are absolutely beautiful and I’m so happy you’re here, and anyone who doesn’t want you as much as

you want them is a fucking donut, Jacob, because you are just the most wantable man on planet Earth.”

“Because you’re good at it,” he corrected calmly, firmly, “and because I need you. Your ideas, your energy, your care—all of it. You’re not just my sunshine; you’re the sun. You make my business better. You make it ours.”

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