When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)
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“You need your manager’s approval to eat?”
Michaela 🥶🤍
Right your a grown ass woman
em liked this
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I don’t want to be Rae’s friend or anything else to her.
Michaela 🥶🤍
Then why is she in your house
Shahed Qadan liked this
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I’m sure Rae Rose is itching to get back to her fancy life. No need for me to worry.
Michaela 🥶🤍
They make a lot of assumptions about each other
Shahed Qadan liked this
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Okay, now red flags are going up.
Michaela 🥶🤍
Really!!!!!
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She can go cry to her entourage about it—I have enough people to worry about as it is.
Michaela 🥶🤍
She didn’t ask you to worry about her tho….!!!!
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I don’t want her to get comfy around here and think we’re actually friends. This is what I call drawing a clear line.
Michaela 🥶🤍
I must’ve missed something.
Gwen✨ liked this
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I could solve all this easily by calling Susan and having her send a car.
Michaela 🥶🤍
She said this about a million times… plenty time and opportunity
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You’ll stay at Noah’s and I don’t want to hear another
Michaela 🥶🤍
You can’t force her to stay with him if he doesn’t want her to
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“Just say the word and I’ll call my manager and have her send someone. I can be out of your hair by the afternoon,”
Michaela 🥶🤍
You could have been done that. You know he didn’t want you staying with him in the first place
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Do I trust that she won’t come bang down the door immediately or send a whole team of security personnel to trail me?
Michaela 🥶🤍
Then why call her?
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running it lightly across my cheek, reveling in the softness.
Michaela 🥶🤍
That’s very weird
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He has a lunch date? He said he was single, but I guess that doesn’t mean he’s not casually dating.
Michaela 🥶🤍
He they go with the assumptions again
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they want front-row seats to the potential sequel
Michaela 🥶🤍
Tell then to mind their business
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I could successfully push her away like I’ve been trying to do instead of immediately tugging her back.
Michaela 🥶🤍
Why are you trying push her away and you don’t even know her
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I sure as hell don’t hate staring at those full lips,
Michaela 🥶🤍
But you hate her staying at your house tho. Pick a struggle
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Maybe it’ll scare her out of town. I should have sicced my sisters on her sooner.
Michaela 🥶🤍
You were just kissing her tho
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“If Noah’s okay with it.”
Michaela 🥶🤍
Your a grown women. Why are asking a men for approval
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“What do I wear to Honk’s?”
Michaela 🥶🤍
The fact that she said i think it was hanks and said honks anyways
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Harry Styles’s birthday
Michaela 🥶🤍
Love harry
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He’s all blunt and zero sugar. He’s fantastic.
Michaela 🥶🤍
Weird way to use sarcasm
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We walk through the door. All heads swivel in our direction. The group of people line-dancing in the middle of the room come to a swift halt. The music cuts off. Everything goes so silent we can hear the click of the door shutting behind us.
Michaela 🥶🤍
This seems so unrealistic
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Paparazzi will be here within the hour. It’s how it always goes.
Michaela 🥶🤍
Did she say at the before the book that the town has little to no cell service as wells a wifi
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I laugh and drink and talk.
Michaela 🥶🤍
She took an ibuprofen and drank alcohol
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I forgive her the chuckle.
Michaela 🥶🤍
She can’t laugh
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I take a sip of my second beer
Michaela 🥶🤍
She knows shes not supposed to be drinking will taking strong pain reliever like ibuprofen
Lana liked this
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Annie and Em won’t let me.”
Michaela 🥶🤍
Your a grown ass woman. No one dan make you do anything
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“I’m trying to break them of swearing so much. When anyone reaches twenty tallies, they have to pay twenty bucks to the cussing jar,”
Michaela 🥶🤍
Again there grown. They can say as many cuss words as they want.
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Tipsy, sure. But this sensation is different. Alarming.
Michaela 🥶🤍
Probably because you took ibuprofen
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It’s a heavy-duty, knock-you-out-until-next-summer kind of sleeping pill
Michaela 🥶🤍
Which is even worse that ibuprofen when drinking alcohol.
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mix sleeping pills with alcohol.
Michaela 🥶🤍
Any type of behind the counter pills
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mmmedication.
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I know there’s no way I’m leaving her like this tonight. I want to, but I just can’t.
Michaela 🥶🤍
Okay personal growth
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“No. And all I’m saying is you and the other girls shouldn’t get attached. You can’t trust a woman like her.”
Michaela 🥶🤍
When i thought we was getting some where. If you can’t trust her why is she in your house 🫥
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“I may not like her, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want her to feel safe when she wakes up in the morning feeling like crap. She’s sleeping it off at your place tonight where she’ll be surrounded by women and not in a house alone with a man she hardly knows.”
Michaela 🥶🤍
Best thing he said all book
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It’s not infatuation. Not even lust. It’s the worst of all the feelings…care.
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Care is reckless because it doesn’t come with the seat belt that selfishness offers. Care has so much to lose, and almost always ends in heartbreak.
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“I still can’t believe he sat beside her bed all night and monitored her.
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“And let me ask you something? When the hell did it become such a crime to be selfish now and again?”
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Sometimes a woman is just worn out and needs a break, you know?” The lines on her forehead deepen. “That doesn’t prove that you’re weak or neglectful, it proves to all the women standing by and watching you pave the road to success that it’s okay to say no. It’s okay to shut your door every now and then
Michaela 🥶🤍
Preach sister
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“Well, of course you don’t, darlin’. No one loves anything they’re miserably chained to.”
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I imagine pressing my palm to his chest and feeling the laugh while hearing it.
Michaela 🥶🤍
Weird asf
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That’s a pretty juicy story, are you sure you don’t want to sell it?”
Michaela 🥶🤍
If he was gonna tell on you… he most likely would have done it when you first got there
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Irritated that I won’t believe his kindness.
Michaela 🥶🤍
Girl… he’s finally being nice to and this how you act
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What kind of asshole wouldn’t want to be friends with her?
Michaela 🥶🤍
You
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We offered to let her stay with us since you’re being rude.
Michaela 🥶🤍
He doesn’t have to let her stay in his house. Especially rent free
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you can’t go with her.”
Michaela 🥶🤍
He can if he wants to
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“Noah, are you…drunk?”
Michaela 🥶🤍
He did not drive drunk
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But maybe it was a woman.
Michaela 🥶🤍
Assumptions
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I didn’t drive mysmelf home,”
Michaela 🥶🤍
Good