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Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2) QUOTES

Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2) QUOTES

1 " I sang… Oh my God! “Hopelessly Devoted to You.” I was auditioning for the musical.” “I walked face-first into a set of lockers listening to you. It was like a fist to the heart. I was a goner. "

― Lucy Score , Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2)

2 " It was a Friday night football game, and the two were strutting victoriously off the field. While Luke’s then-girlfriend Karen jogged up to him for a kiss, for one shining moment, Aldo’s dark gaze had met and held hers. Just like that, late-blooming sophomore Gloria had developed her very first crush. "

― Lucy Score , Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2)

3 " There were people in this world who couldn’t feel big unless they were making someone else feel small. "

― Lucy Score , Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2)

4 " Life moves pretty fast. There’s not a lot of room for coulda, shoulda, woulda. "

― Lucy Score , Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2)

5 " Gloria left, taking the light out of his house…and leaving him with a bad-tempered kitten hell-bent on world domination. "

― Lucy Score , Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2)

6 " Gloria leaned forward and pressed her lips to the worst of the scars, jagged and nasty beneath the sweetness of her mouth. He didn’t want to taint that. Didn’t want his ugliness leaving its stain on her. "

― Lucy Score , Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2)

7 " He turned the knob. “It’s being renovated for event space. I happen to know the owner who owes me a favor. So their first event is your prom. "

― Lucy Score , Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2)

8 " She grinned at him, and his heart picked up the pace. He was going to marry this woman and make a family with her here within the walls he’d built and she’d painted. "

― Lucy Score , Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2)

9 " A half mile was nothing "

― Lucy Score , Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2)

10 " But it was her face that he saw through the rest of his appointment. Through the balance and strength exercises, the electrical stimulation, and finally the massage that soothed his screaming muscles. "

― Lucy Score , Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2)

11 " He wasn’t imagining it—the air between them was charged. There was a connection being made. Whether it was natural or a side effect of the decade-long crush he’d had on her, Aldo didn’t care. He reveled in it. "

― Lucy Score , Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2)

12 " When Gloria appeared on the stairs, lugging his vacuum cleaner down from the second floor and belting out “I Will Survive,” Aldo was convinced he was hallucinating. He was back in that hallway in high school, watching the pretty girl in the spotlight. "

― Lucy Score , Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2)

13 " She laughed, the brightness of it filling up his truck, his chest. Yeah, this was worth coming home to and worth not leaving again. "

― Lucy Score , Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2)

14 " I thought I was too damaged to know what real love was. But I was wrong. I know what it is because of my scars, because of my past. I know what love is. I know that I love you and that I’ll spend the rest of my life loving you if you let me.” Her voice trembled. “Hell, I’ll spend the rest of my life loving you even if you don’t let me. "

― Lucy Score , Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2)

15 " He caught a whiff of the cinnamon-y goodness under the foil. “I think we should get married,” he decided. Gloria’s jaw dropped, and then she laughed again. “I’m serious,” he insisted. “Just, maybe spend the next six months thinking about it, okay?” “Yeah, I’ll do that,” she said, still laughing when she released her seatbelt. “Hang on,” he said, sliding out from behind the wheel. He hurried around to her door and opened it. “You’re engaged to a gentleman. "

― Lucy Score , Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2)

16 " See, I’ve had a crush on you for a touch over a decade. And I didn’t make my move for a variety of reasons. But I’ve never stopped crushing on you. "

― Lucy Score , Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2)

17 " With his free hand, Aldo cupped her cheek. The touch was so tender, so sweet, that Gloria felt her heart do a belly flop right into her stomach. “Here’s the thing. I don’t want to terrify you, but you’re stronger than you think, Glo. You can handle the truth. I think you might be the girl I’ve been waiting my whole life for. But I want you to see who I see. I want you to remember what it’s like to be you. "

― Lucy Score , Finally Mine (Benevolence, #2)