The Off Limits Rule (It Happened in Nashville, #1)
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Read between March 2 - March 4, 2022
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bow. I take my seat like we’re playing musical chairs and someone just cut the music so my seat was about to disappear. Why am I like this?
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the word commitment sound like a swear word.
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I kid you not, life turns to slow motion, and “SexyBack” by Justin Timberlake starts playing over the speaker as Cooper James steps through the door.
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How is it even fair that grown men are allowed to still play video games, but if he walked in on me playing with my old Barbies, he would send me to therapy?
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I don’t think everyone is meant to have careers that change the world. Sometimes you’ve just gotta pay the bills and then clock out
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hopeful that maybe I looked like Shakira that whole time and not a member of the Wiggles like I suspect. 
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contemplating if I’d rather move to Mexico or Alaska.
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cute.” 
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Cute?!
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cute
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cute
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cute?”
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cute.”
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cutie
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cute.” 
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cute
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cute?” 
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“Cute
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cute.”
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cute,
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cute
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cute
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cute,
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cute—like
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cute
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She looks down at the sweatpants and t-shirt like maybe they’re full of frogs and I’m trying to trick her into wearing them.
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Denial is healthy,
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“Levi!” I bellow over my shoulder. “Come save me from your grammy! I’m going to need a rescue mission!” Mom keeps tugging me. “Levi, if you stay out of the kitchen for fifteen minutes, I’ll bake you chocolate chip cookies and let you eat them for lunch.” “Oooh, you’re ruthless.”
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He says it in the same tone a woman uses when she says I’m fine. She’s never fine, men, and you’re going to sleep on the couch that night.
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He cuts his eyes to me. “Really? You think it’s a good idea to poke me until I fight you?” “Yeah. I’d rather you fight me than ignore me for sports. I never thought I’d sympathize with a married woman so much, but tonight has changed me.”
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cute-guys-calling-me-all-the-time
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cute
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I look around, briefly waiting for the Punk’d camera crew to burst out from a closet.
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“Cute.
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take back everything I ever said about this woman. She’s brilliant. Scholarly. Should be teaching a course at a university, because what she’s explaining right now is a way-better life skill than algebra.
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cutest
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cute
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cute
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“I’m wearing hideous underwear.” And this, ladies and gentlemen, is one of the reasons I’m falling for Lucy.
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Because here’s the thing about people you admire speaking into your life: sometimes you trust their opinion of yourself more than your own. But just because they say it, doesn’t make it true,
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His hand flexes like the sexiest scene ever filmed (aka the Darcy hand flex from Pride and Prejudice…you know what I’m talking about)