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Eva wanted a man like Donovan Cardona to take one look at her and fall madly, hopelessly in lust with her. And then rip her clothes off and take her to bed for two weeks straight.
She grinned up at him, and his blood stirred. Bewitched and bewildered. That was his current status.
No, Eva didn’t need another protector. She needed a man who would forget to be careful with her. One who made her feel lusted after, loved, craved, adored.
He didn’t even notice what she was wearing. It didn’t matter. All that mattered was the fact that he was inconveniently, irretrievably, nonsensically head over heels.
“So, we’re in a relationship?” her voice squeaked up an octave. “We are if that’s what you want. I want to give you what you want.” Her laugh was nervous and sounded borderline hysterical to her own ears. What she wanted at this exact moment was a naked Donovan Cardona cavorting around in her bed. “This is overwhelming… I thought we were just going to dinner. Not planning a future.” “I want to be upfront with you. No surprises, no secrets. I want you Eva. And I think you might be it for me.”
“He said—to paraphrase—family wants to be there for messy parts, not just the celebrations.” “The mess is more important than the big wins,” Gia nodded. “That’s like if I wouldn’t have introduced you guys to my kids before they were potty-trained and feeding themselves. Babies and toddlers are the mess, but you can’t skip over the mess and just land at the good stuff. Most of the good stuff is in the mess.”
“Just because you’re not where you want to be yet doesn’t mean you aren’t who you need to be,”
“I was standing there, in the middle of the happiest day of someone else’s life. And it was like something punched me in the chest hard enough to knock the wind out of me,” he admitted. “I’ve never felt anything like that before in my life. It was New Year’s Eve, one of my best friend’s weddings, and I felt like my future had just started.”
Where she’d spent her entire life trying to prove herself worthy of love, he’d simply loved. More than that, he trusted his heart without questioning whether or not it was right. And just like that, the broken pieces of a little girl’s heart knit together a little tighter.
there was no room for self-doubt. You took some lumps when you were younger and had to work for your confidence, your independence. Don’t discount that work. You’ve earned every inch of where you are today.”
“Nope. I think this is the real deal. We’ve been moving so fast. I’d like to slow it down a little bit.” “Sometimes fast doesn’t mean wrong,” Franklin said with a wink. “Not when happiness is on the line.”
