Heartless (Chestnut Springs, #2)

by Elsie Silver

“Sounds like her loss, because you might be the coolest kid I’ve ever met.” She doesn’t use a sad voice, or a baby voice, she just talks to him like a normal human being. “Fucking hell,” I curse under my breath because she just practically hired herself.

i love talking to children like they're just little adults it brings me so much joy

All thick arms and broad chest and furrowed brow. Dirty boots. Muscular thighs. Cowboy porn with a frown.

I’ll take a boozy brunch with my bestie and a dirty book in bed by eight for a thousand, Alex.

“Beg.” “Pardon me?” “You heard me.” Her lips don’t even twitch. She’s not joking at all. “Beg.”

“Yeah, and my daddy said he’d rather roll around in the manure pile than hire you.”

“The joke’s on you though. I wouldn’t last ten minutes and just because you’d be quiet doesn’t mean I would be.”

“You’re a good man, Cade Eaton. Quite possibly one of the best.”

Willa might be a bit of a psycho—after all, she did just push a child into the pool—but the more time I spend with her, the more I feel like she’s my psycho.

“Keep talking like that and I’m going to fuck the filth right out of your pretty mouth.”

GULP

“Sometimes I wish you were my mom.”

SOBBING

“Yesterday you were all Me Cade. You woman. Stay here. Eat pussy every day,”

“Then stop Eeyoring around out here with me, you grumpy dumbass. I’m going to bed. Y’all kids exhaust me.”

“It’s two people who were both a little lost until they ended up on the same path and walked together for a while.”

I told you not to be sad. I told you she’d come back. Our wishes came true! She loves us too much to leave.”