Bittersweet (Ocean View #3)

by Morgan Elizabeth

“How long have you been fighting this battle alone, sweet girl?” he asks, tucking a stray strand of hair behind my ear. That gets me. That guts me. His eyes look into mine, and he sees my answer without my having to give it. “Too fucking long,” he says. “Now I’m here to share that burden.”

“When a man works that hard for something that beautiful? He never lets it go, Lola. Never. He cherishes that. And that’s what you really want, baby, To be cherished. You want me to prove I deserve that last kernel and spend every day until my last breath proving I deserve it.”