Floored (Ward Sisters, #3)

by Karla Sorensen

"Don't be so consumed with what you're missing that you stop paying attention to what's in front of you.

What he said next were words I'd replay a thousand times over the next few months, when I had no idea how true they were. In a rough voice that pulled goosebumps up along my arm, he said, "I'm the man who's about to give you an education, love."

"I swear, you girls have an athlete radar, and it's going to be the death of me. Couldn't one of you end up with a lawyer or a teacher or a dog trainer or something?"

Someone I wanted to see, someone I wanted to spend time with, and not only because of the baby.

"Be careful that you don't anchor your thoughts so firmly on the past that it's hard for you to deal with your future, especially if part of that future is unclear."

Suddenly, proving my worth to anyone but Lia felt like a fool's errand.

Don't you want a normal life with a family? A woman who loves you and children to raise? What kind of life do you think you'll have chasing a ball around for millions of pounds every year?

"I think what makes the great great is something inside them. Even when their body betrays them, it's still there."

"The reason I'm so sure is because selfish people don't wonder if they're selfish. They do what they please and don't think about the consequences of their actions. Brooke left us because she thought she'd be happier. She thought life would be easier without us. And fuck that ho, she was probably right. We were little savages sometimes, but I guarantee you she never worried about what damage she left behind, because she was—is—selfish to her core."

"The Wards are like their own gang. We'll defend each other to the death, and once you're in," she said ominously, "you can never get out."

It wasn't like I wanted him to know that I'd fallen in love with him, or that I was closing a door by ending things like this.

I hope you're not shaming my wife for what she does for a living or Lia for being proud of her for it because she's teaching an entire generation of girls that you can be beautiful and smart and sexy and respected, and none of those things cancel the other out."

"When you meet the most important person in your life, and your soul can go, Oh, yes, you're the one I've been waiting for." This.

won't do that again," I vowed. "I think I was momentarily weakened by the mental image of you eating a freshly baked cookie. I know what sounds you make when that happens, and I'm only human, love."

Sometimes, you proved your worth by showing what you were willing to give up.

"I'm in love with her," I told him. "And I'll

do my best to prove that, even if I have to wait."