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401 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 19, 2022
“Sometimes family isn’t what you’re born into. Sometimes family is found.”
“Love follows you. It goes where you go. It doesn’t know about social divides or distance or common sense. It doesn’t even stop when the person you love dies. It does what it wants.”
“Even though I didn’t fit into her life, she fit into mine.”
“It’s amazing how someone can touch you, even if you only know them for a moment in time. How they can change you, alter you indelibly.”
“How do you do that?” she breathed.
“Do what?” I asked, my voice husky.
“Know how to touch me.”
“I pay attention to you,” I said, kissing her collarbone gently. “How you feel matters to me.”
“Have you ever seen anything so perfectly beautiful?” I breathed. I turned to Daniel. But he wasn’t watching the petals anymore. He was looking at me.
“Yes…” he said quietly, holding my eyes. “You.”
“Kiss me, Daniel Grant.”
He looked scandalized. “Right here? In front of everyone?”
“Right here. In front of everyone.”
💐“Love follows you. It goes where you go. It doesn’t know about social divides or distance or common sense. It doesn’t even stop when the person you love dies. It does what it wants. Even if what you want is not to be in love.”💐
🌹 𝓢𝓹𝓸𝓲𝓵𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓐𝓱𝓮𝓪𝓭 🌹
🦋“I had to drown first.
And I was finally, finally ready to save myself.”🦋
❤️🩹“Daniel empowered me, instead of stripping me. Lifted me up instead of keeping me low.”❤️🩹
💗“She felt like the sun. Like she was the reason for everything. Like I’d always been waiting for her to get closer and bring me to life.”💗
🤍“Nothing could convince me this woman wasn't made for me to love. I think my soul recognized hers the second I laid eyes on her. Our bodies knew it the very first night.
The power she had over me terrified me. But it also gave me clarity.
There is a peace in knowing the one thing you can't live without. It simplifies all things. There was her, and then there was everything and everyone else. And only she really mattered.”🤍
🛐😭“I'd give up my life here to be where she was if she'd have me. I'd give up my house and this town and all the people in it. If she was at the hospital eighty hours a week, I could be there when she left and be there when she came home. Make her breakfast, take her lunch, take her dinner. I could pick up the slack. She wouldn't have to do anything, it could be all me this time -I'd go to her. It didn't have to end.”😭🛐
☀️“You don’t have to feel like this. You literally don’t. Quit. Leave. Pick him. Pick yourself.”☀️
❥ 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓽𝓸𝔀𝓷🌻 ˖⁺. ༶ ⋆˙⊹
💝“Sometimes family isn’t what you’re born into. Sometimes family is found.
And I’d found mine in Wakan.
I’d found mind in him.”💝
I didn't like that others had to take care of me. I wanted to know how to take care of myself. I wanted to pull my weight and learn to be self-reliant so that when I did depend on someone, it was by choice and not necessity. And it was Daniel who was teaching me how.
“I see you. I would save you if you were drowning.”
“I pay attention to you. How you feel matters to me.”
“Grace costs you nothing.”
He was in a black tux. One hand on the railing, and every woman in the room looking at him- but he was looking at me.
“Have you ever seen anything so perfectly beautiful?” I breathed.
I turned to Daniel. But he wasn’t watching the petals anymore. He was looking at me. “Yes…” he said quietly, holding my eyes. “You.”
He pulled out something and put it in my palm. It was a rock…
“It’s shaped like a heart,” he said. “Took me two hours to find it.”
It wasn't flashy. It cost him nothing but his time- but that was the gift. Daniel didn't have time. That was his most valuable commodity right now, and he'd given it to find me this?
She said she didn't see a future with us. That our lives didn't fit. I knew there were things I could never give her. At best, I had about as much to offer as my damn dog, companionship, and entertainment…But I could love her better than anyone ever could for the rest of her life. That, I knew. And if there was even a fraction of a chance that might be enough, I was going to take it.
🥀“There’s something more final than forever. It’s never. Never is infinite.”🥀
Because sometimes family isn’t what you’re born into. Sometimes family is found.