Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

by Abby Jimenez

“Both of us pick the hottest guys we can find on Tinder. Probably someone posing with a fish, but that’s not important.

“Just keep her laughing,” Doug said. “When a woman laughs, her eyes are closed more. She won’t notice how ugly you are.”

The sexual tension between the two of us was like a sunflower turned to the sky. I’d felt it even when she was gone, I realized. Like my body was looking for her even though I didn’t know where she was. It was a shift in gravity. Two bodies in a hammock, or an old mattress that dips in the middle. I could feel us rolling toward each other. It’s the kind of pull that’s easier to give in to than it is to get out of.

“My point is, the penguin’s not picking her mate because he’s the one who has the best rock. It might look that way, but she’s not. She’s taking the rock because the male she wants the most is offering it. Sometimes what you have to give is enough. Even if it’s a rock instead of a diamond.”

He was closing open tabs on a laptop in my brain one at a time until he was the only thing on the screen.

Proof of a thumbprint on her soul.

It’s amazing how someone can touch you, even if you only know them for a moment in time. How they can change you, alter you indelibly.