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The beautiful girl wearing my jersey who feels like home.
I’m realizing that what I’m feeling is a whole lot more than a brotherly sense of protection. It’s envy. It’s possession.
I know how it feels to lose someone you love, and I couldn’t do that to these people who’ve become my family. I’ll suffer before ever making them do the same.
You gonna try to tell me you don’t retreat or isolate yourself when bad shit happens? It’s like you forget I’ve known you for almost two decades.”
“You don’t need to worry about me, Sunny.” I don’t look back when I hear her soft response. “I always worry about you, Jas.”
Because I’ve been staring at Jasper Gervais since I was ten years old, and suddenly . . . he’s staring back.
“Times have changed, Sloane. I’m not scared anymore. You’re not my fucking friend. You’re just mine.”
lie here thinking about how this entire night is quintessentially us. Highs and lows, pleasure and pain, happiness and sadness. Secrets and truths.
She told me so much, and I gave her so little in return. Like I always do.
We latch onto each other like we have for the better part of our lives. Because no matter what else is going on in the world, everything is better with her in my arms.
Things between Jasper and me are messy right now, but . . . it’s us. We always end up back together somehow. We just need to stop fighting it.
I might not know his body. I might not have memorized all his tattoos. But I know his heart. I’m intimately familiar with all the pieces of it he’s given to me over the years. But they aren’t enough. I want the rest of it too.
It almost doesn’t seem real how we slipped so effortlessly into this new relationship. It feels like we’ve been together all along, and I guess in some ways we have.
He makes me believe in myself. Then he bosses me around in bed—but I like that part.
He just asks me how I feel. Like what’s going on inside my head—inside my heart—is worthy of his notice and respect.
