Things We Hide from the Light (Knockemout, #2)
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Read between June 21 - June 26, 2025
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“Small towns are where busy professional women get seduced by a rough-around-the-edges local business owner. Ooh! Or a sheriff. Have you met the sheriff yet?”
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Every nerve in my body fired to life at the contact as if she were jumper cables and I was a dead battery.
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This wasn’t looking for a one-night stand. This was a quest for an anchor. Something I could hang on to in the storm.
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Instead of using up your energy trying to hide this from everyone, maybe try working your way through it. Both ways take a hell of a lot of energy, but only one of them gets you through to the other side.”
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“I’m so fucking tired, Angel. I just want to close my eyes next to you. Can we worry about the consequences after?”
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“I just wish I woulda kept trying to look to the light instead of sinking into the dark,” he said. “A man can learn to live in that dark, but it’s no life.”
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“This idiot practically has ‘put a fuckin’ ring on it’ tattooed on his fucking ass.” Then he jerked his chin in my direction. “And that pain in the ass has ‘love ’em and leave ’em’ tattooed on hers.”
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You’re not responsible for how you were brought up, but you are responsible for your actions and reactions once you’re an adult.”
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“The only one left to prove anything to is you. And if you don’t realize what a strong, capable badass you are, you haven’t been paying attention.”
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“Being vulnerable doesn’t mean you’re weak. It means you trust yourself to be strong enough to handle the hurt. It’s actually the purest form of strength.”