Wild Love (Rose Hill Book 1)

my tears run dry

her fingers curl into sarcastic air quotes—

The door to the bistro jingles when I tug it open.

“I want messy and snarky and…” I peek back over my shoulder at the old barn, transformed into a new office, before turning my gaze back on him. “I want a wild love. I want you, even though you make me want to push you into the lake and break your computer and throw paint all over your pristine floors. I want this feeling I have with you where it hurts to breathe when you get too far away, where my skin itches uncontrollably when you look at me. Where thinking feels overrated because we both know nothing and no one will ever feel like this. Like us.”

“Make him work for it.”

, “No, I think I prefer you with your ass up and your mouth stuffed.”

“God. I love gin and tonic. Panty remover.”

I know that if I can sit on the dock and watch the sun go down, maybe I’ll be able to let this day go.

Because when you love someone, and you share the mistakes they’ve made with people who don’t love them the way you do, you can’t expect those same people to forgive them the way
you do either.

Because as much as I don’t need a knight in shining armor to defend my honor, I’m relieved I have one who feels compelled to do so.