Total pages in book: 90
Estimated words: 84533 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 423(@200wpm)___ 338(@250wpm)___ 282(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 84533 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 423(@200wpm)___ 338(@250wpm)___ 282(@300wpm)
Still, Crow hated to go to town, the mountain the only place he really wanted to be, but it was where I wanted to be too. It felt like our own world up here, like a piece of heaven made just for us, where I was safe and loved and comfortable.
Where I could sit in my room for days and not leave the bed if I wasn’t feeling well, where we grew our food, worked on vehicles, and lived a life that was perfect for us.
“If you insist.” Crow pulled up my underwear and jeans first, then took care of his own. He held my hand as we made our way back to the house. “I need to take orders to the post office tomorrow.”
He’d started selling his artwork online. Crow drew and painted nature and animals, and he had quite the following. No one knew who he was, just a man named Crow who painted nature like he was one with it.
“Okay. We can do it when I go to work.”
We got home, where the painting of Annalise that Crow had done three years ago hung above the fireplace. We’d burned the one of The Enlightened long before that.
We showered together, and then Crow pointed to my stool in the kitchen. I rolled my eyes, pretending not to like his bossiness as I sat there and watched him make dinner.
Mel and Izzy arrived not long after that. We had roast and potatoes, and laughed a lot, all of us happy, and then they headed back to town at about eight.
Afterward, we bathed together, Crow washing me and me him before we climbed into our bed.
“I love you,” Crow said into the dark, stroking my hair. “You are…everything to me. My salvation, my reason for being.”
I climbed on top of him, his arms wrapping around me as I nuzzled my face into his hair. “I love you, Crow. You’re my reason too.”
And he would be my reason for everything, every day, for the rest of my life.
Just like I knew I would be his too.