Things We Never Got Over (Knockemout, #1)
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“Not unless you count taking her to senior prom because Tina got caught with her mouth on Naomi’s date’s dick in the locker room at school.”
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I could respect that.
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“Definitely not,” I lied.
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“When you look good, you feel good,” I recited. “Good girl. Now get your cute little asses in there.”
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“Right. Of course you predicted it.”
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“You’re impossible to argue with, you know that?” “You might as well save your energy and quit trying.”
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“Fine. Sorry.”
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“We feel really good about that,” I decided.
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something she’d taken pride in.
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Which is why when you mess up—and you will cause you’re human too—there has to be a consequence. It won’t be cutting your hair or not making you dinner. It’ll be boring shit like chores and grounding and no TV. Got it?”
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Well, hell. The man’s hotness had just escalated into underwear melting territory.
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Told you your sister was a gigantic waste of DNA.
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I’m first in line for face punching when she turns up. Stef: Good girl. Also, I added a bikini wax to your mani-pedi.
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Growly Tattoo Guy deserves to get laid after that speech. Also, Jer is fifty shades of gorgeous.
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“What are you agreeing to?”
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“Nothing. No one is agreeing to anything,” I said sharply. “Face is burning up, Daisy,” Knox observed.
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the best self-care maintenance, in my opinion, is regular, earth-shattering orgasms.”
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I couldn’t tell if he was smoldering or pissed off. “See ya around, boss.”
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“He only casually mentioned that your friend was the hottest gay man to strut into Knockemout in a decade.”
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“Lucy, Lucy, Lucy,” she said. “When are you gonna learn not to bluff me?”
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“Naomi, outside. Now,”
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“Seriously? What’s your problem this time, Viking?”
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“There a problem?” Grim asked, his voice low...
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“None of your c...
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“What the fuck are you doing in that room dressed like that?”
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“I’m going to need a pie chart or a Venn diagram or a database to catalog all of the many ways I piss you off. Why are you mad that I’m doing my job?”
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They can be dangerous if they want to be.”
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“Fuck me,”
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“That’s not happening,”
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Tanner gets too much over-priced scotch in him, he starts hittin’ on anything with a rack and losing hands. That skirt you’re barely wearing is already a distraction. He loses too much, he starts talkin’ shit and startin’ fights.
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Trouble follows him.”
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He’s got enough enemies out there that you don’t wanna be standing next to him when one of them shows up.
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She feels she’s been done wrong, she’ll burn down your world with a smile on her face.”
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“Baby, you showed up in town in a fucking wedding dress with flowers in your hair. You scream into pillows when you get stressed out.”
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Like it or not, you need someone watching out for you because you’re too damn stubborn to do it yourself.
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“You’re suddenly too worried about me to watch your own ass while you’re serving a table of criminals.”
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“Has anyone ever told you you’re ridiculously dramatic?”
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This time I’ll let you make my problem yours.”
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“Fine. I’ll give you a hundred bucks.” “Deal.”
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my brilliant plan didn’t seem so brilliant. “Goddammit.”
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“Especially since the waitstaff got even more interesting.” He gave Naomi a wink.
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“The pleasure was all mine, darlin’,”
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and it better not be trouble.”
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Maybe I came back to help you bury the hatchet.”
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Get over it and move the fuck on,” Lucian said.
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“I’ll catch up with you when you’re hovering over Naomi.” I flipped him off.
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“You got a second?”
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“Depends.” “It’s about Tina.” Fuck. “I’ll...
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I had a whole list of reasons to be pissed off at the world. And most of them revolved around Naomi Witt. Every conversation with her ended in me having a headache and a hard-on.
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If he could ever settle fully into the thoughtful grump and give up the pissed-off bad boy, he’d make some woman very lucky someday.