The Ex Hex (The Ex Hex, #1)

by Erin Sterling

Because I occasionally have one whisky too many and see what The One Who Got Away is up to and she still lives there which is why I definitely don’t want to go back

Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes and reminded herself of the mantra she’d come up with driving away from him last night. He is the worst, he is the worst, he is the actual, literal worst.

Except that she could never be a stranger, never just be some woman he fancied,

Sometimes she thought what she’d really fallen in love with that summer was the version of herself she was when she was with him.

They could talk about “getting it out of their systems” all they wanted—this wasn’t the kind of thing one got over.

“There’s no really good timing for this kind of thing, is there? Finding your person? It just kind of happens when it happens. Or so they say.”

“You’ve had my heart from the moment I saw you on that bloody hillside, and I hate that I wasted nine years without you, but I’m not wasting a single second more. If you need to be here, then I need to be here. Simple as that.”