It was then I was seeing the wisdom of doing what I could to amass a girl posse who knew how to deal with “uber-alphas” because they could share their wisdom.
Maybe he got tired of waiting and he’d gone without me though I doubted that was the case and decided he was probably doing something Max-ish. Chopping wood. Building a barn. Saving a child in distress or climbing a tree to rescue a cat. Stuff like that.
Being with Jake was like the ride I once took on a mechanical bull. You could not even begin to guess which way that thing would buck. All you could do was hold on as tight as you could and enjoy the ride for as long as you had it.
I needed to get to Fortnum’s, hang with my friends and be in my normal. That was to say, see if one of Lee’s other guys decided to wade into the troubled life of some sick gorgeous woman who had people wanting to kidnap her, stab her or steal her money, and wade into that.
I didn’t want to go back to sleep. I wanted to talk to him until the earth started revolving around the moon.
It was exhausting, trying to be perfect. It feels good being able to be just me.
But first, I needed to go to the liquor store and buy a bottle of Jack. I didn’t drink Jack but I thought now was a very good time to take up bourbon.
Handbags and shoes were my passion.
Compassion is often mistaken for weakness, when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to give it.
I gave up a world for you.
Tab and I don’t play it that way. You wanna order your old lady around, do what you do, not for me to say. I asked her to go, she didn’t go. Not gonna make her. But you try, you’ll deal with me.
Yeah, I told you she was The One. Problem is I made it so I wasn’t The One for her.
A man has a woman, he sees to that woman. He doesn’t leave her to see to herself.
Keep sayin’ Joe, baby, you’re makin’ me hard.
Colt looked at her and said, “The only things precious in life breathe.
Anyone who truly cares about you will let you have your feelings, whatever they may be.
How lonely I was, even when I was with him. How it felt, him not making love to me, being affectionate, making me feel desired or desirable. How much it bothered me that, even though I’d talked to him about all of this, even wrote him other e-mails, it didn’t ever seem to penetrate.
It’s extremely improper for me to call a young teenaged boy a douche,” I stated and everyone looked at me. “That said, Taylor is right. He was definitely a douche.
I’m not a big goof. I’m a badass, even with a squirt gun. I totally kicked both their asses.
I don’t fight fair, baby. I fight to win.