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I didn’t do sweet nothings or lovemaking.
keep telling urself that
And the end of the man who had destroyed my family? It would be glorious.
oh okay!
“I hope you appreciate what a good friend I am.” Jules yawned as we tromped across our front yard toward Josh’s house. “For waking up at the butt crack of dawn to help your brother clean and pack when I don’t even like the dude.”
they’re getting tg im calling it (jules and josh)
“Actually, he is.” Josh slung an arm over my shoulder, his eyes twinkling with mischief. “Meet your new neighbor, Little Sis.”
YES ILL SIGN A LEASE TOO
“I’m not bragging. I have hyperthymesia, or HSAM. Highly superior autobiographical memory. Look it up.”
OH YES IK WHAT THIS IS
“Yeah. We’re opening the center up to beginners. Just one class for now, see how it goes. Missy bugged me about it until I agreed—said people would be interested in learning it for self-defense and that we have the best instructors in the city.”
we all know avas gonna be in this class
“What I want, Uncle,” I said, my voice still registering the clear, high pitch of a boy who had not yet hit puberty, “is revenge.”
uhh
“Put it in.” Put it—oh, the DVD.
BYEE
I kicked open the door to my room and set her on the bed. She didn’t stir.
PLS HAVE A NIGHTMARE CHEN
She was mine. She just didn’t know it yet. I hadn’t known it myself until I saw her in Colton’s arms and every instinct raged at me to tear her away. To claim what belonged to me.
WHOA HOLD UR HORSES
“Finish the photo shoot, Ava.” The roughness of his voice scraped against my skin.
bro.
Stark desire scrawled across Alex’s face as he stared at me, his eyes burning through the camera and straight into my soul.
I NEED THAT PICTURE.
Before I could lose my nerve, I stood on tiptoes and kissed him.
oh my goodness
“You’re right, sweetheart,” I said, dropping my forehead to hers with a resigned sigh. So. Fucked. “But the rules don’t apply to you.”
my boy is whipped
“What did I tell you? You’re mine, Sunshine. You’re never touching another man unless you want him six feet in the ground. So yes, we’re fucking exclusive.”
“You want to fuck, we fuck. You want to date, we date. You want to call me your boyfriend, I’ll call you my girlfriend.
Rhys Larsen wasn’t Booth.
RHYSSSS
“What are you doing for Thanksgiving?” “I imagine I’ll be eating turkey somewhere,” he said casually.
ok smart ass
but I only made it halfway before something pushed me.
SO IT WASNT HER MOM HUH??
“Michael Chen.” Ava shook harder. “Alex, my mom didn’t try to kill me. My dad did.”
yup
Not only had my father tried to drown me, he’d also tried to suffocate me.
well damn
“I think you would,” I said. “I think you’ve been lying to me my entire life.”
pop off
“Bravo.” He slow-clapped. “I almost had you,” he told me. “You should’ve seen yourself. I swear, Mrs. James was real,” he mimicked, laughing. The ugly sound raised every hair on my body. “Classic. You really thought you were crazy.”
oh hes SICK
you and Josh were a package deal. Unfortunately, courts almost always side with the mother except in extraordinary circumstances, so…” He shrugged. “I had to engineer an extraordinary circumstance.”
im sorry what.
“I have something to tell you. I—” Tell him. It’s now or never. “I love you,” I whispered, my heart beating fast, my confession a breathless rush.
WHY SO QUICK
The man responsible for my family’s death wasn’t Michael Chen, Ava’s father. It was Ivan Volkov, my uncle.
theres a lot to unpack here...
He knew I’d seen the letters between him and my mother—the ones where he’d professed his love and begged her to leave my father, the ones where she’d rebuffed him until he grew more and more aggressive and she had to threaten him with a restraining order…the ones where he promised she would regret spurning him.
oh!!
“Princess Bridget of Eldorra, here to see Asshole—I mean, Alex Volkov.” Her smile came off both polite and menacing.
CLOCK IT BRIDGET
“Because I love her!” I slammed my hands on the table. “There, happy? I love her so much I would rather give her up than hurt her. But if you think I’m letting her go to another country alone, with no protection, you’ve got another think coming. Now give me her fucking flight info.”
U WHIPPED MF
I could be whoever I wanted, and the creative spark I’d lost in those dark weeks after Philadelphia came rushing back.
im glad she has become her own person again BEFORE she gets back w alex
“I never claimed to be Prince Charming, and my love isn’t a fairy-tale type of love. I’m a fucked-up person with fucked-up morals. I won’t write you poems or serenade you beneath the moonlight. But you are the only woman I have eyes for. Your enemies are my enemies, your friends are my friends, and if you wanted, I would burn down the world for you.”
short flights to neighboring countries like Ireland
CORK? DID U GO TO TOMMEN? DID U MEET TADHG LYNCH MY HUSBAND??
Knowing that someone, anyone, liked my work enough to pay for it sent a swarm of happy jitters through my stomach.
alex definitely bought
“Someone bought all your pieces. Every single one.” I almost choked on my champagne. “Wh-what?” The exhibition started an hour ago. How was that possible?
WHAT DID I TELL U
“I realize this is quite a surprise, as a live performance wasn’t in the program tonight,” Alex said. “And if you know me, you know I’m not famous for my patronage of the arts—or my singing skills.”
nononono
“Whether it’s music, photography, film, or painting, the arts reflect the world around us, and for too long, I only saw the dark side.
im sorry the DARK SIDE?
EPILOGUE
ayy
stipulates the country’s monarchs must marry someone of noble birth. His sister, Princess Bridget, is now first in line to the throne. When she becomes queen, she will be Eldorra’s first female monarch in more than a century…”
GO BRIDGETTTT
