The Grand Pact (The Grand Men #1)

by J.C. Hawke

I smile along with her because it is morbid, and she’s fucking beautiful.

If in two years you haven’t found her, if you’re not settled and well on your way to ‘five-year Luce,’ I’ll give you the kids.”

Elliot Montgomery isn’t just my friend. He’s so much more. “Sleep, Luce. Leave your worries in today and sleep into tomorrow with me. You’ll be alright.” He’s my safety blanket.

“Up. Now. Or I will have you screaming out my name at this table for the whole restaurant to hear.”

“We fucked up our friendship the day we met, princess. It’s insulting to me that you think we are friends.”

“What I would give for you to be coming on my cock. You’re tight, Luce. Real fucking tight. Any man’s wet dream, yet it’s your cum that’s leaking down my wrist, the inside of your legs—they’re covered. You’d make the hottest fuck, princess.”

Indecisiveness won’t take you anywhere far.

“One day, you’ll look back and wish you were in New York again, up at four a.m., watching on while the world slept because you were buzzing with the anticipation of chasing your dreams. Don’t wish this away, princess. You dreamed of it once.”

“We’re fucked, princess, you know that, right?”

I’d never take a thing back with you Elliot. NOT A THING. Okay? You wanna chat later? I’m at work still. Might be late today xxx

Not a thing, Princess.

Happy first day of living your dream. I’m so proud of you. Elliot xx

Maybe our friendship has laid a bed of trust beneath our feet, so when we completely cross the line, it’s with knowing.

“You’re mine now. And if you want, I’ll be yours, princess. You just need to say the words.”

She’s the woman of my wildest dreams, and I’m the broken fragments of yesterday’s nightmare.

I want to go home. I want to go back to how things were. Back before I fell in love with him.

“Outta your head, baby,

“I fell in love with you!” he bellows, and my heart all but stops. “You think you’re the only one? I fell in love with you before you left me. I fell in love with you before I even knew who you really were. From the first night I met you—from my friend to every look that followed. Every word shared. Every fear I found. I fell in love with you.”

you’re the motherfucking main character, princess.

“I need you to put your arms around my body and hold me for a while, princess. Can you do that for me?” “Yeah. I can do that.”

Luce: 227 days feels like too many sometimes Elliot: You’d rather it was easy, sweet girl? Elliot: Epic isn’t easy

The goalposts are always going to get further away, and the triumphs will always be bittersweet because life won’t always go the way I planned it.

I know you don’t like to make plans, and I’d never force you to make plans with me, but—” “I want to make plans with you.”

“You want this to be easy?” She smiles. “Epic isn’t easy.”