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“I know that I can’t go back and give you the fairytale beginning, but I can give you the ending you’ve always wanted. We’ve done this whole thing backwards, but one thing’s for sure: you come first. No matter how this started, from here on out, we are in a marriage based on nothing but love.”

“You know that old saying, everything that can go wrong will go wrong?
Murphy’s Law, they call it. ”

Now this is more my experience 😩

“Go with your gut, kid. That way, no matter what you choose, it can’t be the wrong decision.”

I wish I could adapt this perspective

“Ugh. You know I’m no good at this serious, heart to heart stuff, but I’m just… happy you’re happy...”
“Thanks, Jax.” I’m oddly touched. “I am happy.”
“I’ll admit. I was very, very skeptical at first. But he looks at you like… like everything you say is the most interesting thing in the world.”
“Really?”
Jax raises his eyebrows cheekily. “Yeah, I don’t get it either.”

🥺

“Okay, so. I would have never, ever said that I was the type of girl to be turned on by macho manliness. Or male dominance. Or violence.
I dated a pastry artist for over a decade, for goodness sakes.
But then, I went and married a hockey player.”

😏

“Don’t you ever speak to my wife like that again, understand?”

The mother is a piece of work...

“I’m staring at my husband like he’s speaking in Klingon, my mouth wide open. I can’t say anything. I’m worried that if a single squeak comes out of me, the floodgates will open and I will bawl like a baby.
Because Seb… he went for something infinitely better: he read my heart’s desire and made it happen… without me having to say a single word to him.
He just knew.”

“What’s preposterous is that you actually give a damn… You don’t even believe in marriage. Or love. So why do you even care… ?”
“Because I love you, silly,” he says on an exhale. “I care about your happiness. And you believe in love so much that it’s to your detriment sometimes, I think. Therefore, the thought of you being married for anything but love makes me upset for you...”

The brother!

'Vodou cookies'

This needs to be a thing

So far so good, I'm even smiling

“I have to fix this. I don’t know how I’ll do that exactly, but I have a rough idea. And that’s okay, because the thing about life is we’re all just making it up as we go along. Doing our best, taking chances, making mistakes. Hopefully learning along the way.”

“The man is gorgeous, accomplished, and has the annoying habit of showing a sensitive side when I least expect it. He’s not just librarian catnip with his secret library. He’s head-over-heels catnip…”

“Tell me what you want, Liberty...”

“Wow.”
“What?”
“You’re one of those girls.”
“What girls?”
“A sexy nerd. Fuck. That’s the vibe I was getting... Look at you. It’s like you’re about to tell me to quiet down...” he adds, with a long look at my lips.
“Of course you’re stereotyping me,” I snap. “I’ll have you know that librarian science is an extremely complex field of study.”
“Damn.” He whistles.

“I’m angry-swiping… only to find… a full-length photo of Mason standing in front of the water. He’s completely shirtless, his swim trunks dipping far too low to be decent, allowing me to see the lines of his abs disappearing beneath the fabric. He’s laughing at someone off camera…
Oh, no. I can’t unsee this. I can’t. I knew that he was probably hiding a perfect body under his suit, but this?...”

“… he hoped my next job wasn’t with customers since customer service clearly “wasn’t a good fit.” Which, excuse me? I am great with customers. In fact, one of the reasons I’m so excited about being a librarian is because I’ll get to work with people. You know, in which I quietly recommend a book and they quietly slip off to read it...”

“Liberty,” he repeats back... “I’m going to tell you a secret.”
“Okay,” I agree because I’m not really in a position to object. Also, who doesn’t love a secret? …
“If I wanted a woman to enact some nanny fantasy with me,” he continues, his voice seductively low and unhurried—he pauses, eyes locked on mine before continuing—“I wouldn’t need to pay her.”

“I love reading more than I love breathing…”

“Don’t go home with him,”
“Go home with me.”

"Baller had a personality that matched his ass. He was loud, exuberant, larger-than-life."

We get it, can we move on?

"Hockey ass was a documented phenomenon..."

ok then

"Now he had to face the ass of one Dante “Baller” Baltierra, a specimen large enough to have its own gravitational pull."

I mean, that's impressive ngl

Too little, too late

She did not just say that

“You need to stop thinking so much,” he told her.
“Make me stop,”
He lifted his head. “That’s what you want? You want me to take control?”
She nodded eagerly…
His eyes sparked with pure devious desire… the kind of grin that made her toes curl. “Oh, bombón. You’re in for it now.”
Sofi shivered at the promise in his words.
“Turn around and put your hands on the counter.”

Yes sir 🫠

“I accept myself as I am in that moment. There are a lot of things about myself that I wish I could change, but I know I can’t. I’m never going to not have ADHD. I’m never going to not have nerve damage. So I have to figure out how to work around those things in order to still accomplish what I want”

🤧

"... he used to play professional soccer, so you know he's good with his body." 😏