“I was dying to see how the rest of the night would go, how many more sides of Gideon I’d get to discover. Because I loved this side of the man as much as I loved the powerful businessman in the suit and the dominant lover in my bed and the broken child who couldn’t hide his tears and the tender partner who held me when I cried.”
― Reflected in You
― Reflected in You
“If I kept you with me, I was going to hurt you somehow. I knew it. I couldn't have it. So I let you go.”
― We'll Always Have Summer
― We'll Always Have Summer
“What else can I bargain with? You have everything.” “Your time and attention are the two things you can leverage. I’ll do anything for them.”
― Reflected in You
― Reflected in You
“That he was working instead of spending time with me shouldn’t have rankled—I knew how busy he was—but it did. I felt abandoned and needy, which told me I was regressing into familiar bad patterns. The simple fact was, Gideon and I were the best and worst things that had ever happened to each other.”
― Reflected in You
― Reflected in You
“We both had hang-ups, insecurities, and an addiction to each other that required regular contact to keep us functioning properly. I hated being apart from him. I rarely went more than a couple of hours without thinking of him.”
― Reflected in You
― Reflected in You
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