The Right Move (Windy City, #2)

by Liz Tomforde

Yes, moving in with my best friend’s brother sounds like a plot pulled straight from one of my favorite romance novels.

This guy is a monster who probably runs marathons for fun and passes out nutrition bars on Halloween.

I want the rest of my life more than anything.

Stop looking at her or she’ll be the last thing you ever fucking see.”

Not too stoic, but not too animated. What a terrible way to go through life.

I’ve learned over the years that sometimes people, especially men, are more intimidated than impressed by intelligence.

That’s not how this is going to go. When you’re with me, I want you exactly as you are. That includes letting people know just how fucking smart you are. You’re not going to cater to anyone’s toxic masculinity bullshit. You’re not going to be quiet and appeasing when you’re with me.

What the hell is so important that she needs to be working these kinds of hours? Did the airline do a pay cut?

This is my version of her. The one where she’s comfortable and casual at home and I don’t want to share her.

I’ve always found Indy’s Converse random and a bit strange, but now I find myself wondering what I have to do to get myself added to them.

Call me old-fashioned, I don’t care, but I have yet and will not let her open her own door.

“I’m not weird. You’ve just never had someone take care of you before, so you may as well get used to it.”

“It was acting, Ind.”

Stop.

“You’re not broken,” he rasps against my skin. “You just didn’t have the right distraction.”

you told me you were an expensive girlfriend, so prove it.”

Energy🤌🏼

“I’ve got to believe that there’s more than what I had, if you can even call that love anymore. And that’s exciting, hopeful even, to believe there’s better out there. Call me a dreamer. Call me naive, I don’t care. I call myself optimistic.”

It’s the blind trust in another person that’s petrifying.

💯

Clearly, my radar is off if I could fall for someone like that. Who says that’s not happening again?

“Okay, you can be mad at me all you want while you sleep in my bed.”

If Alex hadn't done what he did, I never would’ve had the opportunity to know Ryan the way I do. I never would’ve had the chance to be immersed in this man’s world and realize how right it feels. How at home I feel.

It’s an overwhelming realization to have, that I truly want no part of the life I once wanted.

Some people don’t deserve your unwavering loyalty.”

I do have something left to give.

I have the energy to love someone, and my heart has the space to accept it in return.

“I know it doesn’t seem like it now, but I was a lot like you when I was younger. I used to trust people, love people.

I dug myself out of that hole, I got my shit together, and put on a sparkling smile

“I mean this in the nicest way possible, but Blue, you’re the most inconvenient thing that’s ever happened to me.”

At some point, I should probably tell her that my love language is whichever one she wants it to be so she can stop guessing. I’ll make sure that girl feels loved however she needs.

I once assumed that Alex’s loud declarations of love, showing me off, and saying it daily was what it meant to love someone.

I no longer need the over-the-top declarations. I don’t even need to be told. I simply want to feel it, be consumed by it.

in comes this man who I’ve only known for a few months, turning my life upside down and proving what it means to be loved.

Were the tears she shed while rushing to the bathroom at my game due to guilt, knowing it’s going to hurt like hell when she ends things with me?

The miscommunication !! 😠

I didn’t give Indy the chance to tell me she doesn’t want me here, so I truly have no idea what I’m walking into.

Yall could have texted. Don't Piss Me Off

I didn’t know the bar was on the floor until Ryan Shay walked into my life and quietly raised it to the fucking moon.

it’s not lost on me that Ryan will always take care of and protect me, the same way I will him.

I feel like this book had it's closing line TWICE already, yet I still have 20% to go?

I spent a lot of years asking and hoping for the life I wanted. It’s almost as if my words were never heard so I stopped asking at all.

“Will you to look at me, Ryan?”

???

“Can I read some of your book?”

🥹

This family I’ve created over the last year and a half is new in my life but holds a weight far more significant than the friends I kept for an entire lifetime.

He blows out a deep exhale, looking away from me as he tries to come to terms that I’m not going home with him today.

Girl, go home!! Let's wrap this up

This place has five bedrooms and when I bought it, I had every intention of filling them all. I want you to see this house when you’re asking yourself if you’re trapping me into a life I don’t want, okay?”

“I think that sounds like the right move.”