“Okay, let me get the sequence of events straight,” she said. “He told you was in love with you-” “He said he was in the process of falling in love with me.” Maggie rolled her eyes. “So he qualified it slightly. Big fucking deal. He still put it out there. You respond by—correct me if [...]

Cullen was leaning against the kitchen counter holding a bouquet of stargazer lilies. He straightened his posture before offering them to me. “A somewhat unorthodox choice, I know, but I thought of you when I saw them.” Stargazer lilies have been favorite flowers ever since I was little, largely because they were freckled like me. [...]