hika ୨୧

“She offers me a slight smile through the mirror. “Do you think I look like the guys I grew up playing hockey with in Indiana? Fuck no, I don’t. And now, in the league, my peers don’t look like me. But look at us together.” I nod towards our reflection. “You can’t look at us and say we don’t fit in. We go together perfectly.” Her blue-green eyes gloss over in the reflection. “You’re the best thing that’s ever happened to me, Zee.”
― Liz Tomforde, Mile High

“Don’t you fucking dare.” My voice is as quiet as I can make it. “If you say anything, I will end you. Then I’ll marry your wife just to spite you, and your son will grow up calling me Daddy.”  “Oh, fuck you!” Maddison isn’t trying to be quiet at all. “Stevie, Zee wants you to be his date to a charity gala in Chicago, but he’s too chicken shit to ask and doesn’t think you’d want to go with him.”  “I fucking hate you. We are no longer friends.”
― Liz Tomforde, Mile High

“I don’t like the term ‘settling down.’ I didn’t settle for anything. I simply stopped running when the two best boys I know caught me.”
― Liz Tomforde, Caught Up

“If you ever decide to stop running and make a home…” His eyes are begging, pleading. “Make it with me.”
― Liz Tomforde, Caught Up