Ann Aguirre

I Want It That Way


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      Nadia Conrad has big dreams, and she’s determined to make them come true. But between maintaining her college scholarship and working at the local day care to support herself, dating’s the last thing on her mind. Then she moves into a new apartment and meets the taciturn yet irresistible guy in 1B….

      Daniel Tyler has grown up too fast. Becoming a single dad at twenty turned his life upside down—and brought him heartache he can’t risk again. Now, as he raises his four-year-old son while balancing a full-time construction management job and night classes, the last thing he wants is noisy students living in the apartment upstairs. But one night, Nadia’s and Ty’s paths cross, and soon they can’t stay away from each other.

      The timing is all wrong—but love happens when it happens. And you can’t know what you truly need until you stand to lose it.

      I Want It That Way

      Ann Aguirre

       www.miraink.co.uk

      For Leigh Bardugo,

      who speaks of love as if it’s a question that must be answered.

      And so I tried.

      Contents

       Cover

       Back Cover Text

       Title Page

       Dedication

       CHAPTER SEVEN

       CHAPTER EIGHT

       CHAPTER NINE

       CHAPTER TEN

       CHAPTER ELEVEN

       CHAPTER TWELVE

       CHAPTER THIRTEEN

       CHAPTER FOURTEEN

       CHAPTER FIFTEEN

       CHAPTER SIXTEEN

       CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

       CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

       CHAPTER NINETEEN

       CHAPTER TWENTY

       CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

       CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

       AFTER THE AFTER

       CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

       CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

       CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

       CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

       CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

       THE EVER AFTER

       BONUS SCENE: SHEER LONGING (TY)

       PLAYLIST FOR I WANT IT THAT WAY

       AUTHOR’S NOTE

       ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       Copyright

       AFTER

      There’s always a meet-cute, right?

      The girl trips and the boy catches her, they’re stuck together on an elevator, or she leaves her phone behind in a bar and he returns it to her. Later, when people ask the inevitable question, “How did you meet?” the story unspools with the woman telling part of it and the man finishing, or vice versa, while everyone admires them for staying together. I don’t have a story like that, or at least, I have a story, but it’s mine alone, and there’s nobody finishing my sentences.

      I want it that way.

      Right?

       DURING

       CHAPTER ONE

      The first time I saw Ty, I fell down the stairs and tore my pants.

      A superstitious person might call that an omen. He had nothing