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It’s decided. I’m going to bring some color into Ryan Shay’s life if it’s the last thing I do.
“Stop looking at her,” I warn. “Go hit the showers or get to the airport or just about anything other than look at her. She’s not available.” “So, you are hitting that.” Dom nods in approval. “No, I’m not hitting that. And neither are any of you. Stop looking at her or she’ll be the last thing you ever fucking see.” “Ooooh. Protective Shay is here, and his sister is nowhere to be found. Someone write this date down. History is being made, people. Ryan Shay gives a fuck about someone other than Stevie and something other than basketball.”
I’m sure I have something in my closet. And here I was about to offer my expensive girlfriend the opportunity to take my credit card out for a spin. Now that you say it, I’m pretty sure my entire wardrobe got lost in the move. That’s weird because your bedroom door still won’t close thanks to all the clothes sitting on the floor. Oh, that’s where it all went! Lucky you, I’m covered for this one. Great. And Blue, I’ve got to tell you something.
See you at home.
Ryan asks, putting his cooler on the picnic table and fishing out a box of frozen veggie patties. “Indy is a vegetarian.”
“Look at us. Going to your fake boyfriend’s game like a happy little family.”
Our power forward sets a screen on the backside of my defender, giving me room to move before he rolls off towards the basket. I feed him the ball just in time for Ethan to swing around to the corner off a screen in the paint from Dom. The ball is kicked out to him, then passed to me, open at the top of the key where I sink a three.
Maybe words of affirmation are his love language. Maybe it’s quality time. I’m not sure, but I’m going to become fluent in them all until Ryan understands just how much I love him.
But let me make this clear, when it comes to her, I have no issue ruining my reputation. I will burn the
world down to protect her and I’ll proudly wave the match, so everyone knows I’m the one who did it.”
“You know that jersey you’ve got with my last name on it? When you see it hanging there in your closet, let it serve as a reminder to you, that soon enough, it’ll be her last name too.”
Mrs. Shay is another I’d like to add to the list in the future.
Daily update—I’m in love with your brother. Stevie Best daily update I’ve ever received.
Jogging back to my team, Zanders shouts from behind me. “What about me? You don’t love me?” “Love you too, brother!”
“Say that again for me.” “I’m heading to Michael’s.” “And who the fuck is Michael?” Huh?
“How else would you get to live a thousand lives in the span of only one? The beauty of fiction is that it makes you feel things on a visceral level. You can cry with those characters, laugh with them. It teaches you to look at another’s perspective, to have empathy. In nonfiction, you simply learn about something instead of feeling it.”
“He never left. The guy slept in his car, and honestly, if I were into dudes that right there would have me folding.”
“I love that you read romance novels to feel something. I love that you love flowers and plants because nurturing and allowing something to grow is second nature to you. I love that you experience every emotion so hard it takes over your entire body. But baby, I want to be the one to make you feel how your favorite books do. I want to be the one to give you children to nurture and grow. When you think of me, the only emotion I want you to feel is unconditional, earth-shattering love. Because when I look at you, I see my entire future and I can’t stand to live in a world where you look at me
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She ignores me. “I’m going to need at least two ‘I love yous’ every morning and another before bed. I’m a bit needy, you know. Words of affirmation and all that. And we should really build an in-home library, and maybe a greenhouse in the back for winter.”

