Into the Tide (Cottonwood Cove, #1)

by Laura Pavlov

To anyone who has ever felt like they weren’t enough…remember that YOU ARE! Be brave. Be confident. Be fearless… BE UNAPOLOGETICALLY YOU. Because you are enough. xo ~ Laura

Because she was my girl, wasn’t she? Maybe I couldn’t have her, but she was mine.

I didn’t know when it happened—when I’d fallen completely in love with this woman, but it had happened. I’d finally experienced what my father had always talked about. What my brothers and I had teased him about for years. It wasn’t that the hair on my arms stood on edge like what had happened to my father, or that I knew I would marry Lila James. It was a repeated clarity that I experienced day after day with this woman. My heart no longer belonged to me. It was hers. No one else would ever have it—that I was certain of.

“I’ve taken a vow of celibacy, you know, since the Irritable Bowel Syndrome started. There’s nothing quite like getting the shits in the throes of passion.”