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“You are now and forevermore a hero to me.” Sniffling, Seth stepped back. “She is the light of my life. She and Mason are the lights of our lives.”
“She brightens up mine, too.”

“Thanks. I know you love her, but I loved her first, so thanks for saving my sister’s life.”

“My boy up there loves you. Anything else is just noise.”

“Let’s make a pact. Once a year, wherever we are, we meet somewhere and have a drink in a bar. Even when we’re a hundred and ten.”
He held out his hand, pinky crooked. She hooked hers with it. “Even when you’re married with five kids,” he warned.
She snorted. “That’ll be the day.”
Yes, he thought. Yes, it will.”

“Uncle Seth taught me. He said every woman should know how to tie a man’s tie, facing him. And I’d know why someday.” She smiled, smoothed the fabric down. “And now I do. Look at you, Xander Keaton, clean shaven.” She stroked a hand over his cheek. “Wearing a tie.” She angled her head. “Who are you again?”
“It won’t last.”
“And that’s fine, too.” ”

“Pleasure, so acute it sliced. Desire, so intense it seared. And love, so deep and yet so new it drowned him.”

“You should play to your strengths, and you’ve always been a champion brooder.”
“Up yours, Mason Jar.”
“Another strength,” he went on, “is your power of observation. ”

“. What makes you happy is right here. You need me, and I make you happy. And I fucking well need you, so you’ll stick.”

“Naomi has no degree of separation. And she might deny it—would,” he corrected, “but there’s a part of her that doesn’t see herself worthy of being loved.”

“So there’s a part of her that doesn’t think she’s capable of loving outside of me and the uncles, or worthy of being loved.”

“She doesn’t know you’re in love with her.”

“I’m going there because she’s the most important person in my world. ”