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Lucy Score
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June 12 - September 26, 2023
I was the luckiest son of a bitch in the world.
“Well, how am I supposed to say no to that?”
“You’re so goddamn beautiful, sometimes I can’t look directly at you,” I confessed.
It was like a knife to the gut, knowing how close I’d come to losing her for good.
“Nash,” she whispered, her voice trembling. I loved the way she said my name when she needed me.
“Shut up and suck, baby.”
Lina was someone I’d give up everything for.
“You’re one of a kind, Angel.”
“She either slapped him or he spanked her,”
“None of this goes down before the wedding Saturday. Nothing fucks up Daisy’s day.”
“If it’s a precaution Waylay and I have to take, you have to take it too.”
and that makes me think he’s the one we need to find.”
this time.”
“You expect me to move in with you?” My voice went up an octave. I instantly began to sweat.
I wondered if earth-shattering sex was some kind of miracle cure-all.
“Boy toy? Man friend? Emotional support fuck?” “Boyfriend,” Nash decided.
“You think I can’t tell when my girlfriend is panicking?” “Now you’re just being a Nashhole,”
don’t think about me screaming your name when you go down on me.” “Fuck.”
“Hey, Nolan. Tina dropped a pen just to watch Nash pick it up,” I tattled as we got in the car.
I hadn’t even choked on my latte yesterday morning when Justice asked me how my “boyfriend” was doing.
“She’s gonna be mine. Officially. I keep waitin’ for her to come to her senses.”
“No one in this world could ever love her more than you do.
“I might sound like a goddamn greeting card, but it’s worth everything,”
That vulnerability shit is just like respect. It’s earned.”
Sandwiches didn’t count as cooking, I assured myself.
“You’ve viewed every relationship since as a potential prison.” Okay, that rang a little true.
“There you go emphasizing again.”
Brain freeze, life-altering epiphany—same difference, right?
Aunt Naomi would freak if she saw his diet.”
You are one date away from Sexville!
But not in a pervy way. More like a worshipful way.”
“God, you’re hot when you’re all sleuthy.”
Jayla Morgan was the light and laughter of our little family. When she didn’t come home that day, part of me died. Part of all of us died. We were never the same.
She didn’t say a word to me, didn’t rise to the bait. She just walked away.
She pointed at Piper. “You love her, you idiot.”
“Does that remind you of your mom?” she asked quietly. “How the fuck could it not? It happened on the same stretch of road less than two hundred yards away.”
I’d made the woman I needed, the woman I loved, leave.
Smug soon-to-be-married women were not to be trusted.
We barely knew each other, and I was crying in the damn rain over a man who had kicked me out of his apartment.
“Let go of me!” “I tried. I can’t.”
His hands were gentle as they combed through my wet hair and slid down my body. Soothing. Reassuring.
But I understood that he needed to give. So I surrendered to his touch.
I got it then. Really got it. I loved her. I wasn’t using her as some crutch to avoid the world. She was reintroducing it to me one experience at a time.
Sometimes the answer is the one that just feels right.”
Mrs. Tweedy was with me when we met him in the grocery store.
“Were you? Because it sounded to me like you figured out something you shouldn’t have.”
And since I’m not gonna send it, I might as well be fucking honest for once.
Whether I do or don’t, I want you to know my brokenness was never yours to fix.
“Women,” Lucian said dryly.
“It’s not like he’s ever showed up for anything before.”
