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simone is insufferable 🫣

“My mom loves—loved—flowers, and I wanted Madeline to know how celebrated she is. We’re going to start growing some flowers out on the balcony, and I can’t wait to be able to pick some and give them to her on a random Tuesday afternoon,”

hudson 🫠🫠🫠🫠

The last thing I want to do is give her space. I want track down the piece of shit who hurt her and teach him a lesson. I know I have a job to do, but hockey is the last thing on my mind. For years I’ve given everything I have to this team, and I hate that I have to pick between the sport I love and the woman I’m gone for.

hudson hayes my heart

“I’m in love with you, Alice Everly. I knew the day you crashed John’s boat that you were going to be trouble for me. I should have kept my distance, but I couldn’t stay away. And the more I got to know you, the more beautiful and terrifying it became. Until I knew I’d finally found the person I’ve been waiting for.”

“I’ve been trying to do something right. I want better for you than me. I want you to have a life full of freedom and joy and glitter and art. An endless bucket list. You know, Alice. I saw something else is those photos. I saw myself falling in love with you.”

When I examine my reflection in the mirror, I see a confident, stylish woman. The Alice I am when I’m shooting. But it feels like a mask.

waitttt charlie really brings out the real alice

charlie florek is so charming 🥹🥹🥹

“I bet you’d do anything for your friends.”

“I’d do anything for the people who matter to me.”

this is giving such 5 star energy i can’t

this is not a slow burn. this is just frustration.

Everything about her appears precise, almost stiff, a striking opposition to her playful personality. But my life-loving Nan is still not herself. I get the sense that she’s not here with me but rather lost in past trips to the cottage. It’s been a decade since her last visit.

wait stop stop what’s happening with nan

It took time to earn their trust when they arrived at my studio. If anyone understands how nerve-racking it can feel to have your photo taken, it’s me. Now, the women dance and pose in bathing suits without a shred of self-consciousness. Their stretch marks, wrinkles, and cellulite are on display, emblems of their lives given due reverence in each frame.

i can smell the beach. barry’s bay, i’m HOME!

I’m proud to sit beside them. I’m honored to call them my friends, and I know no matter what happens with Hudson, I’ve fallen in love with four women I’ll have in my corner for the rest of my life.

“Relationships end. People fall out of love, and that’s scary to think about when you’re with someone you care about. But instead of thinking about the what-if, I think you need to figure out how you feel in the moment, you know? Are you happier when he’s around? Does your life feel more complete when he’s in it? If those things are true, all you can do is enjoy what you have while you have it.”

“I’m so thankful for your generosity, but maybe we can think about moving away from a paycheck and instead becoming two people who care about each other, who are living together, and I cook for you because I want to. Not because I’m obligated to.”

“I’d go to war for your daughter. For you, too.”

“Why?”

I can think of a hundred ways to answer that. Because I’m attracted to you. Because I’m determined to show you there are good men out there. Because it’s the bare minimum of what you deserve. Because I’m fucking falling in love with you, and I’d let you break my heart if that’s what you wanted.

“Because I protect what’s mine.”

“It’s a shame, because Lucy isn’t a burden at all. She’s a regular kid, and more often than not it’s hearing people who don’t have the empathy and patience to make room for a style of life that’s different from theirs.”

“It’s amazing how sweet everyone is with Lucy. I appreciate how no one treats her like a burden. Because she communicates differently. It’s what people in the past have implied. Athletic coaches, her friends’ parents. The woman at the grocery store who said it must be such a challenge to raise a difficult child.“

“It’s good to see you happy, son. You deserve to be happy.”

“It seems wrong to be happy when others don’t get that chance.”

“That’s life. What’s done is done. Do you really think your mother would want you to stop being happy because of her?”

I think about the evenings on the couch with Lucy and Madeline. First-grade homework on the coffee table and dolls in the kitchen. Carrying Lucy to bed and eating a cookie with Madeline while we split a glass of milk. How much I laugh and how light I feel.

My eyes prick with tears. My vision blurs, but I wipe away the emotions before they can fall. I know she’d tell me not to cry over her, but sometimes I can’t help it. Life is so fucking unfair. I stand and put my hand on her headstone. I drag my finger over the smooth granite, smiling. “I love you, Mama. To the stars, the heavens, and beyond.”

“My name looks good on you, Galloway. Better than any of the other women in the arena. You’re the only one I want wearing it.”

It’s been a week since Hudson and I slept together for the first time, and not a single moment that’s passed has been awkward. It’s natural, almost, like the universe has been waiting for us to find each other. We stayed up late talking last night about anything and everything. He asked me about Lucy as a baby, and I listened to him tell me about his early hockey days.

i can’t wait to get back to my smutty little romances

That might be a side effect from being around someone like Madeline; eternally optimistic, even when she doesn’t have to be. Bright and full of life in a way I feel like I haven’t been in years. Maybe she and Lucy have been the missing piece all along.

“Hey.” Maverick puts his arm around my shoulder. “You’re a catch, Huddy. Your person is out there, and you want to know the wildest fucking thing? She’s trying to get to you right now. It’s just taking her a little while. Traffic, you know?”

“Next time you come to a game, don’t show up in someone else’s jersey.” His fingers trace the outline of the letters spanning across my shoulders. They dance down my spine, and my eyes flutter closed. “I’ll buy you a hundred jerseys with my name on them so you never run out.”

oh i would die

When Hudson lands on the ground after a rough hit, I spring to my feet, checking to see if he’s holding the shoulder he hurt before. I’m overwhelmingly relieved when he gets up and keeps playing.

“It’s so fucking fun to see us succeed. There’s room for all of us in this sport. Forget what the men say.”