Dr. Strange Beard (Winston Brothers Book 5)

I couldn’t wait to have him in my life, for now, forever, for always.

With Billy gone, off gallivanting who knows where

“This idea has merit,”

“Claire is with Jess? Right now?” This question came from Cletus.

“Congressman Winston volunteered, so we could make the case against Razor Dennings and his accomplices

“Simone, I love you. And, yes, we need to talk about what happened. But I know you. I know you and I trust you. I carry you with me, I always have.” He pressed a quick kiss to my lips, whispering against them, “You are in my heart. You have shaped my soul. Nothing—nothing—will change that for me.”

Billy’s eyes popped open, wide open, and his eyebrows nearly hit his hairline. “She- she what?”

He’d been the one to show up to all my sporting events. He coached my soccer team in middle school and was the assistant coach of my varsity football team in high school. He took me around door-to-door so I could sell popcorn and candy bars for school fundraisers. He attended all my Cub Scout camping trips. He was the one to ask for my report card, and sign it, every quarter. He took me shopping for new school clothes, talked to me about the birds and the bees, and put condoms in my wallet when I turned sixteen.

or have drive and ambition like Billy. What has that ambition brought him?”

The music changed to “How Do I Live,” the remake by Claire McClure that was currently burning up the charts.