Forbidden Hearts (Whitlock Family, #1)

by Corinne Michaels

You’re not who anyone proclaims you to be. You’re who you are, and no one makes the right choice every time. It’s not possible. If it were, we wouldn’t have that saying about hindsight. You aren’t the mistakes you make—you are how you respond to those.”

She is every goddamn fantasy I ever wanted.

Here she shines.

Here she’s desire and promise of all the things that could be, and I don’t want her anywhere near these people.

“I see everything, even when I wish I didn’t. So, don’t lie to me.” My throat is tight as I look at him. “You see me?” “Everywhere I look.”

His eyes close, and he brings our foreheads together. “I see a selfless girl. I see a smart woman who is going to change the world. I see a woman who is so fiercely protective of the people she loves that she’ll do battle for them. I see the most beautiful and desirable woman in the world. What I can’t have. What I want. What keeps me up at night. What has my entire belief system at war, trying to convince myself that I can’t give you what you want, even if I wish I could.”

“I’ve waited my entire life to feel this way, and while we have every reason to stay apart, I can’t come up with a single one that’s good enough to make me walk away. I know what I want, Phoebe, and I’m looking at her.”

“Love doesn’t come with conditions.”

Her smile is wide as her finger traces my lip. “I think you might be the sweetest, most perfect man I’ve ever met. I never had a chance of resisting you, did I?” “Like I said, only with you.”

“No, but a man who loves his woman will fight the world for her.”