The Playlist: A Spicy Friends to Lovers Romance

You agreed to be mine, and that means your pleasure? It’s mine.”

My heart swells to the point that I’m concerned it won’t fit in my chest any longer.

And so I give the boy I’ve loved for as long as I can remember the answer I’ve always known.

“I want it all, Zoe. I want all of your midnight secrets, all of your fears. Everything you wanted when you were ten, eleven? I want to give it to you.

“What should have happened years and years ago, Zoe. I’m making you mine in a way you can’t run from.”

“Zoe Ann Thomas. Will you marry me? Be mine forever. We can figure the rest out so long as I have you.”

“Getting what’s mine.”

“What’s yours?”

“You, Zoe, if you didn’t understand. You’re what’s mine,” he says with a smile.

I scramble to look at it, dying to see her name.

“Because you’re mine and I take care of what’s mine.”

“Well, yeah. You’re mine,

“Would that be my job, then? Keep you home? Give you a reason to come home to me?”