Joycee’s Reviews > The Deal: A Man of the House Medical Romance > Status Update

He shrugs, but it’s not dismissive; it’s the gesture of a man who can lift the world and knows it, but never brags.

You’re my life. If the world burns down around us, I’ll make a new world for you.

The winter light drains out of the day fast at this latitude, like a wound that never stops bleeding. By four-thirty, the house is already hunkered into its own shadows, windows blacked out to the world

I chop basil, tearing the leaves by hand instead of using the knife, because the taste is gentler that way. I

There’s an Uber idling at the curb, but I steer her past it, to where the Mercedes waits, black and shining, a wolf among mutts.

how young the kids look. They’re not even people yet, just raw matter being shaped into futures, still soft at the edges, all cartilage and potential trauma.

That’s what girls do at parties, right? They always have something to sip.

I’m not naïve, but I’ve never seen a full street pharmacy laid out so brazenly.

“I’m going for the banana look. This mini-dress can be peeled right off hardy har har!”

bass so heavy you can feel it in your retinas.