Things We Never Got Over (Knockemout, #1)

by Lucy Score

“Just because you’re used to doing something one way doesn’t mean it’s the right way,”

“You get to decide how you show up in this world. No one else gets to dictate to you who you are,”

“Why don’t you ever fucking listen?” he grumbled, lips moving against my hair. “Because sometimes people don’t know how to ask for what they really need. You needed a hug.” “No. I didn’t,” he rasped. He was quiet for a long moment, and I listened to his heartbeat. “I needed you.”

“Sometimes you don’t need a history to see the future,”

I don’t give a shit about causing scenes. I give a shit that I walked into my bar and found a man with his hands on my girl.”

I want you to be as pissed off as I am that some asshole thought he could put his hands on you. I want you to know your worth so no one in their right mind ever thinks they can treat you like that.

“When you trust someone to see you for who you really are, the betrayal is a thousand times worse than if you hadn’t handed them the weapons in the first place,”