Joycee’s Reviews > The Mountain Man's Rescuing Instinct: Ex-Firefighters. Curve Worship. High Heat. > Status Update

I want to believe that crashing into a ditch was the universe course-correcting me instead of punishing me.

Is this your way of saying you trust her judgment?

I trust mine. She just confirms it.

He couldn’t handle your strength, so he reframed it as a character defect.

Maybe you’re better off without someone who needed you to be smaller.

I’m keeping her.

The universe can fight me on it.

You’re not failing. You’re stuck. There’s a difference.

… the exhausted part that’s been holding together everything with caffeine and sheer spite …

Rain hammers the windshield in sheets thick enough to erase the world beyond ten feet.