Status Updates From Inevitable (Carter Kids #5)

“I love you,” he whispered brokenly. “There isn’t anything I wouldn’t do for you.”

Hunter, the man you are!!! 🤍

Taking my hand, he placed it against the skin covering his hammering heart. "This here?" He stared at me meaningfully, his blue eyes piercing and full of heated emotion. "This stopped beating when I was eighteen years old and watched the life seep out of the girl I loved." He was shaking, trembling all over. "It kick-started in my chest twelve years later. When it found you."

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"Admit it," he demanded, closing the space between us. Cupping the back of my neck with his large hand, he drew me closer. "Admit you want me, Hope." (…) "Admit it!"
"I can't," I whispered, trembling violently.
Hunter growled in frustration. "Why not?"
A sob tore through me as I whispered, "He loves me.”
"I love you!" he roared, backing away. "Me, Hope. Me. I fucking love you!"

“Well, though fucking luck, sweetheart,” he chuckled. “Because I am not walking away from you.” His arms tightened around me. “And I won’t let you walk away from me.”

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Love was insanity. It was choosing to bare your soul and ugliness with another human being and being okay with what you saw in the mirror because that person loved the parts of you that were unlovable. The parts you were most ashamed of.

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Putting yourself out there, knowing there's a ninety-nine percent chance it will all end in pain and tears and fucking misery, but risking it all anyway because of that one percent chance it might work out - that it might be the jackpot bet you've been trying to win your entire life?
That was fucking bravery.

The way I saw it, loving someone wasn't a sign of weakness or something to be ashamed of. Not in the least. Loving someone and telling that someone was one of the bravest things a human being could do.