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September 25 - October 6, 2025
“Tell me everything, Heiress.”
“Tell me what you need, Heiress.”
“I believe that our best option for assessing the truth of the mysterious Eve’s character is… Chutes and Ladders.”
“I don’t do vulnerable,” Thea retorted. “It clashes with my bitch aesthetic.”
“The only person I trust with all that I am and all that could be, Heiress, is you.”
“I love you. I would die to protect you. I would make you hate me to keep you safe because damn it, Avery—some things are too precious to gamble.”
“I know,” he replied, “that I love you, and despite all odds, you love me.”
“You’re honorable, Avery Kylie Grambs. Once you were with me, you were with me. You love me, scars and all. I know that, Heiress. I do.” Jameson said those words, and he meant them. He believed them. “Is it so awful,” he continued, “that I want to be a better man for you?” I thought about our fight. “Better is being my friend and my partner and realizing that you don’t get to make decisions for me. Better is the way you make me see myself as a person who’s capable of anything. I would jump out of a plane with you, Jameson, snowboard down the side of a volcano with you, bet everything that I
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“It was always going to be you,” I told Jameson. He needed to hear it. I needed to say it, even though always painted over so much. In response, Jameson gave me another crooked smile. “It’s times like this, Heiress, that I wish I’d fallen in love with a girl who wasn’t quite so good at bluffing.”
“I can’t say that it was always going to be you, Jameson, because I don’t believe in destiny or fate—I believe in choice.” I knelt next to him and let my fingers explore the compartment. “You chose me, Jameson, and I chose to open up to you, to all of the possibilities of us, in a way that I had never opened up to anyone before.”
because love wasn’t just a choice—it was dozens, hundreds, thousands of choices. Every day was a choice.
This was his very risky gamble—and mine.
