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Surviving wasn’t the same thing as living. Was it?
No, it isn't
“You’ll be under my protection for the rest of your life. You understand?” The rest of my life? “You mean until we figure things out?” He shook his head, gaze intent. “They’re never going to stop looking for you, Gracie.” He nailed that coffin shut. “You laid on top of me to save me, even though you knew nothing they could have done would hurt me. For. The. Rest. Of. Your. Life.”
😢
“Did God give you strong bones because he knew you were going to have a personality people wanted to hurt?”
“Were you sent to find me then? Is that why you were in the area?” “No, I’ve known about you for years.” That got me to lower the pillow and stare over at him. “Then what?” His nose scrunched. “I didn’t want to meet you now, and I didn’t want to years ago. I almost started looking for you once but I changed my mind.” He focused on the fireplace again. “No offense.”
Is she supposed to be you're better/other half? You're significant other?
“Friends don’t let friends die. Everything’s gonna be fine. You’ve got something better than that knife. You’ve got me.”
🫶🏻
“Just so you know, Alex… ander… thank you. For everything.” I clutched his finger tighter, and then I blurted out, “You’re my first friend in a really long time, and I know you said you don’t want to like me, which means you don’t want to be my friend either, and I get it, but it still means so much to me.”
Shit, I'm going to cry...
Alexander, The Defender, the hero, the icon who dropped f-bombs, hugged me. His chin went to the top of my head as he pulled me into him. One arm went around my shoulders, the other around the middle of my back, and he hugged me tighter than I’d ever been hugged before. Plastering my front to his. Folding me up in those strong limbs.
😢😢😢
he might be the nicest rude person in the world.
“I don’t have the patience for your bullshit today, little monster. Tell me why you’re on the floor,”
Oh hell no! You don't get to do or say that to her! Little monster is kind of cute, but just stop it!
“I don’t care what you do or don’t have time for. Me sleeping on the floor doesn’t affect you at all.”
Good girl!
“Yes, it does, because you’re my responsibility, and I need to know what’s going on in your head.”
No she's not!
And no, you know need to know!
“I’m not, and I don’t need to be. I can take care of myself, and anyway, I’m not going to be in your life much longer, so don’t waste your time. You’ve got better things to do, after all,”
That's my girl! You got this! 😘👏🏻🤗
“I hurt your feelings that much?”
Yes!
“People think doing the right thing is easy, but it’s not. The right thing is hardly ever convenient.”
“Yes, best friend number 20, I’ll sleep on a bed and ask you for what I need.” I paused. “But I’m serious, you hurt my feelings again and I’m out of here. Then I’ll just have to add you to my list of people I’m going to haunt if I die a tragic death.”
Alex looked at me for a long, long moment. “It annoys me when you’re fucking cute.”
It only annoys you because you don't want your grandma to be right 😝
“I’m going to go get some pigs now just so I can feed you to them.”
😂😂😂
“My grandmother has unimaginable power, but she didn’t… reproduce… asexually,” he deadpanned, eyes wide, that fucking smirk on his mouth. “Do I need to explain the birds and the bees?”
😂😂🤣🤣🤣
“I thought you were okay when you didn’t run and leave me behind when they took us. Then you kind of won me over when you tried to protect me in that cell. And you’ve kept on winning me over since,”
“I missed your three thousand questions and the way you hold my hand. I missed my little monster. Missed her a lot,”
“I was never going to leave you, but I needed to be sure, Gracie, of what we were going to be to each other. And once I was, I made myself think about you. How fair would it be for me, for my family, to take that kind of decision away from you?”
you’re not supposed to be anyone else’s Gracie, you’re my friend. My Gracie. I’m too heavy to be a good swimmer, but I’ll never let you drown. I’ll never leave you. I’ll never keep secrets from you again.”
I made it two weeks before I started craving Cheetos, and I only wanted to eat them with you around. You’ve ruined tuna and pears. Snow and laughing. Being by myself. Nothing is the same without you now.” He dropped his voice. “You little butthole.”
“If I wouldn’t hurt a stranger that could use a foot up their ass, why would I hurt the only person I’m not related to that I’ve ever been able to be myself around?”
“I don’t know where this marshmallow filling inside you is coming from, but I’m all about it,”
Then I blinked up at him. “There is no place I wouldn’t look for you. Seven miles deep in the ocean. On a planet in a distant galaxy. I would go anywhere for you if someone took you, Gracie,”
If there was such a thing as a good kind of heart attack, that’s exactly what I would have been having.
