Foreplay: The Ivy Chronicles

After all, who said learning had to be boring?

Even if I wanted to, it wasn’t in me to save anyone. I could barely save myself.

“But sometimes the thing you want isn’t what you really need.”

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“We’re going to Disney World for New Year’s?”
He nodded and I screamed. Just like every kid in those commercials, I freaked. Throwing my arms around his neck, I hugged him in a death squeeze.
Pulling back, I rained kisses all over his face. “How . . . why . . . ?”
“I remember you telling me about the Montgomerys going all the time and that you had never been. You had that poster in your room, and it just felt like something you really wanted to do.”

“I know. I want that. It took me so long to figure that out, but I know now. You are the safest thing I’ll ever find.”

“I thought you were gone, Pepper. It was bad enough to lose you the first time, but to lose you like that? I couldn’t have dealt with that.”

You can’t even see it. I’m the safest thing you’ll ever find.