Chapters (61)
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- AUTHOR’S NOTE
- ONE DANNI
- TWO ROSE
- THREE DANNI
- FOUR DANNI
- FIVE ROSE
- SIX ROSE
- SEVEN DANNI
- EIGHT ROSE
- NINE DANNI
- TEN ROSE
- ELEVEN ROSE
- TWELVE ROSE
- THIRTEEN ROSE
- FOURTEEN DANNI
- FIFTEEN DANNI
- SIXTEEN ROSE
- SEVENTEEN DANNI
- EIGHTEEN ROSE
- NINETEEN ROSE
- TWENTY DANNI
- TWENTY-ONE DANNI
- TWENTY-TWO DANNI
- TWENTY-THREE ROSE
- TWENTY-FOUR ROSE
- TWENTY-FIVE DANNI
- TWENTY-SIX ROSE
- TWENTY-SEVEN DANNI
- TWENTY-EIGHT ROSE
- TWENTY-NINE ROSE
- THIRTY DANNI
- THIRTY-ONE DANNI
- THIRTY-TWO ROSE
- THIRTY-THREE DANNI
- THIRTY-FOUR ROSE
- THIRTY-FIVE ROSE
- THIRTY-SIX DANNI
- THIRTY-SEVEN ROSE
- THIRTY-EIGHT DANNI
- THIRTY-NINE ROSE
- FORTY DANNI
- FORTY-ONE ROSE
- FORTY-TWO DANNI
- FORTY-THREE ROSE
- FORTY-FOUR DANNI
- FORTY-FIVE ROSE
- FORTY-SIX ROSE
- FORTY-SEVEN DANNI
- FORTY-EIGHT ROSE
- FORTY-NINE ROSE
- FIFTY ROSE
- FIFTY-ONE ROSE
- FIFTY-TWO DANNI
- EPILOGUE ROSE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Also by Sophie Gonzales
- Praise Page
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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“Want to,” I breathe, and it’s not even a proper sentence, and I don’t even care. “Please? But I haven’t done it before.”
“Me neither,” she says, dropping her knee back down. “But I’ve thought about it. Quite a lot.”
Her chest presses against mine, and I can feel her heart racing, too. And I guess somehow I’d forgotten that this is as new to her as it is to me, but remembering that makes me feel much more confident. Enough that I slide my hand between us without wasting any more time worrying about it. Unlike me, she hasn’t had a bit of friction this whole time, and when I find her over her underwear she lets out a strangled gasp that turns into a series of shallow, shaking breaths. It makes me feel powerful, and wanted, and so turned on I feel like I might pass out if it goes on for much longer.
When she undresses me, I stop worrying altogether, because it’s not possible to see the way she’s looking at me and be self-conscious. She drags her eyes and her fingertips down from my collarbone to my hips in sync, and she tips her head to one side and shakes it slowly, and I feel—
“Just so fucking beautiful,” she murmurs, and it’s the last thing she says to me before she finally gives me what I asked her for.
THIRTY-TWO ROSE
By Monday afternoon, the Valentine’s Day photos are everywhere. And not, unfortunately, the quite convincing couple photos of Alfie and me. Rather, other photos, taken by the public, from their area across the traffic cones. Between the dozens of people filming us at any given moment, they’ve captured every slipup. From Danni and me meeting eyes across the ice, to the look of fear on my face when she fell, to me lifting her head off the ice. And though most of these moments lasted a second or two at most—a longing glance, a micro-expression—when captured in still-frame, they last a lifetime.
It’s not only one or two accounts posting these ones, either. It may have started out that way, but while the last round of speculation online failed to take off, this time multiple people are starting to listen. It’s the subject of multiple forum discussions, and theory videos, and personal essays, and trashy tabloid articles.
PRINCESS ROSEMARY’S PRIVATE SCHOOL PASSION
WHO IS DANNI BLYTHE? HERE’S WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT PRINCESS ROSEMARY’S RUMORED LESBIAN LOVER!
“DANNI SLEEPS IN PRINCESS ROSEMARY’S BED AT THE PALACE”: ROYAL INSIDER SPILLS ALL