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Underneath, though, it’s filled with desperate women who turn their heads from their husbands’ affairs so they can keep their Gucci and Birkin,
Defensiveness inhabits the place where empathy used to live.
It might be possible to get through it to the other side, but maybe not together,
If I were that freaking gorgeous, I’d be thrilled all the time.
He was the opposite of all that: he was all hedge funds and real-estate investment and dinner parties, and I was ready.
I’m sure the only reason Lucas never bothered to move the laundry to the main floor the way every HGTV home-makeover show does is because he doesn’t actually do the laundry, so why would it be on his radar?
A small woman with a missing front tooth and an ironic Say No to Drugs T-shirt makes her rounds from table to table, holding a five-gallon bucket of single roses wrapped in plastic.
“God, Harry Kilgore’s breath just comes right at ya, doesn’t it?”
Char is doing that thing where she drops it low or twerks or whatever the hell and then tries to share a laugh, insecurely, like she was just kidding, just pretending to do a silly move, but is secretly trying to push sexual boundaries to see what kind of attention she can get.
“That was probably just gossip we shouldn’t go around spreading,” I say. “You told me that,” Paige says.
“Oh, really? That’s what I did before. I was a reporter. In Tampa. ‘Bay News 9,’”
“Harder like what? Now you’re a crackhead. Seems fitting, as nothing surprises me anymore.”
They say feeling alone with someone else is worse than really being alone,
No matter the hell she put him through, he waited. He knew it was the insurmountable pain talking, and he still loved her. And what kind of love must that be?
