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"Mine?" he whispers. It's obvious. As true to me as gravity. “Yours."

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“It doesn't need to be a good story. It just needs to be me and you."" His expression turns so earnest
it edges on painful. "Me and you's a good story, Mattie. Best one I know."

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“Then it’s love.” Elaine sounds tired but certain. “Then it won’t have ended at all.”

Crying

"But why would I do it at all," I say, my voice small, "if it's headed for something that'll hurt?" Ava doesn't blink. "Because you don't know that it is. You can't know that. And no matter what's coming, it matters how you feel right now."

This convo feels so real and relatable

"I mean this. Mattie, my best idea came from you. You pushing me, you challenging me-" He breaks off. His eyes rake over mine. "It's you."

😭 this man is so precious

"I'll be your team," I tell him. Campbell touches his forehead to mine. "You don't need to do this alone." He smiles. Something small and secret, just for me.

Loving how vulnerable and intimate things have been between these two. Its been hitting me in the feels more than the heartbreak hotel

"No idiot who wants you to give yourself up should get to marry you." I look up at him, smiling. Thoughtful.

And this is Mattie’s why lol

"Mattie." There's hunger in the rasp of his voice. "You're disastrous in all the ways I like.”

"You choose someone because they make you more of who you are. Because they see you, and they want you, and when you're with them, you feel like yourself.”

"There hasn't been a time since I've known you exist that I haven't wanted you, Mattie."

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