The Good Liar (Infidelity #1)

by C.P. Harris

Privacy was the last thing we needed. Cole and I needed to be supervised at all times.

“You’re worth all the trouble, Jasper.

“Anything, Jas,” he said desperately, using the nickname he’d given me as a kid. “No one’s called me that before,” I’d said. “It’s mine. If anyone calls you that, you tell them it belongs to me. That you belong to me.”

Jasper is relentless when he believes in something, and he believed in me. Without him I might have ended up like you, but because of him, I know what makes a great man. And he’s the greatest man in this room.”

“You’re mine. This was inevitable. And I never want his fucking hands on you again.”

“You’ve never been touched the way you—the way you touch me. You’d never understand.” “And you’ve never been loved the way you loved me, not even by me. No one is capable of the kind of love you give. So you wouldn’t understand how impossible it would be for me to move on. Or to give anyone even a fraction of what I gave you,” he promised.

there isn’t anything I can’t love you through, Jasper.”

“How can he love you when he doesn’t even know you?” Cole had asked once. “He knows me,” I’d shot back at him. “No,” he’d said. “He knows who he wants you to be, but I know how beautiful you already are.”