Where We Left Off (Phoenix Falls, #1)

by Sapphire Hale

Hurricane – Luke Combs

!!!!!

Snap – Rosa Linn

Tate. Coleson. The best friend that I ever had. Who then became the worst friend that I ever had.

“I hope you don’t mind having a step-brother!”

oh god is this gonna be like ugly love

That is the hottest boy that I have ever seen my life.

she’s so real for that

I’ve hard-wired myself to never be nice to a guy again,

rightfully so

The other one has his head ducked towards the door, eyes alight and molten, with a grin tugging at his lips. My heart shivers with pleasure as I rush towards the library. Tate Coleson just smiled at me.

Tate Coleson is a chocolate caramel sundae injected straight into my bloodstream.

There’s a CD in the player and I recognise it immediately. This is my CD.

I hope that he is ridden with guilt over what he put me through.

real.

“My mom gives me technology curfews,

oh same bro

“I don’t want to go to college,” I say. “I want to live on a farm.”

“I hate public attention almost as much as you do. I want to live in the shadows like a vampire.”

“What are the little tabs for?” His eyes are back on the book stacks, much to my horror. “I tab the useful bits of information. Vivid and grotesque murder scenes, for example.”

Tate pulls the hair tie off my wrist and pushes my curls back from my face, holding them gently in his fist before securing them with the band.

“I am not taking a single thing from you,” I say in as steady a voice as I can manage. He folds his arms and the tattoo on his bicep bulges. “Tell me whose bed you’re sleeping in again?”

“Tate cannot see you like this,” Mitch says. “In fact, Tate cannot see other people seeing you like this. He’s going to go insane.”

wrapped up with a little ribbon, there is a tiny perfect wooden bookcase.

All I ask is that you don’t die because you’re the only friend that I have.”

me to lauren

He’s hurting because I am hurting.

Is this what men are like? Surely not. Maybe I am dead.

me when a man is nice to me

“I only want to listen if I’m with you,” he says quietly, hands gripping his knees. Then he looks up my body until his eyes finally meet mine. “Only with you.”

I want to spoil you.” Then he looks up at me with a playful smile. “Are you going to let me spoil you, River?”

It’s not my fault that Tate can’t control his rabid hormones.

“Hey beautiful,” a warm voice murmurs gently from behind me.

smash

“I had to come and check on my favourite girl,”

“You’re mine.”

“You are my prey. But you’re also-” He fishes out the chain from under his shirt and holds the cross pendant up to me. “-the answer to all of my prayers.”

i’m so confused what’s this about him supposedly being a fuck boy but also being a big jesus guy

“When I was out this weekend I bought some things for you. Well, for us. But really they’re for you.”

my head’s in the gutter

“It’s about time that you had a real man in your house.”

boy what

On top of the small grey lid is a red velvet cupcake, topped off with a little heart.

The item that he threw at me was a condom.

did his friends dare him to take her virginity 🫥 istg

“It was either that or the priesthood.”

i’m finding that hard to believe

“Then it’s a good thing I’m not a priest.” He tosses me over his shoulder and thunders into the house.

um are they bouta fuck ummm because she drunk and can’t consent

Surely happiness can’t be this simple to achieve.

his other hand slides around my throat, warm, domineering, protective.

ok my kitty’s purrin maybe i have a choking kink

He moves his mouth to my neck and sucks until my chest is heaving.

her mom is definitely going to see that later

“What tattoo are you going to get?” I ask, my voice trembling only a little. “Your name, across my knuckles,”

oh! ok! not weird at all!

“Take her to bed,” Mitch orders as he heads to the living room.

mitch reminds me of uncle jake from credence and it’s scaring me

“Why do you keep saying that I ruined everything for us? How can you say that? I would have done anything for you.”

“I am dating her mom, Tate – and if her mom finds out what you’re trying to do, she will literally kill you.

THATS WHAT IM FUCKING SAYING

I feel evil and guilty realising how attractive they both look right now, so I squirm on the bed in shame.

babe that’s your mom’s bf you’re talking about

He’s instantly drenched from the rain

bitch why is it always raining is there ever sunlight here????

My body traitorously melts a little, so I really hope that he isn’t a serial killer.

every man is a serial killer in his own way

“What’s with the tummy thing?”

“Uh…” he rubs one of his hands across the back of his neck, as if he’s embarrassed or nervous and not sure if he should tell me. “I just… because it’s where…” He breathes out a shaky exhale and shifts a bit, dropping his hand down again. “Not right now, of course, ’cause we’re both young and all but… when we’re older…”

“It’s just… it’s where you’ll make babies is all,”

damn he already wants kids with her 🧍🏼‍♀️y’all ain’t even 17

he wants to make a baby, and he heavily implied that he wants to make it with me.

his bros definitely dared him to impregnate her

“He’d love you, just so you know,”

as his stepdaughter maybe yeah

but then I have to wonder, why the hell does he stay friends with him?

because he was dared by them to impregnate you girl get the fuck outta there