Total pages in book: 81
Estimated words: 76559 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 383(@200wpm)___ 306(@250wpm)___ 255(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 76559 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 383(@200wpm)___ 306(@250wpm)___ 255(@300wpm)
“And Jasper?”
Terry shrugged. “Fuck him.”
I snorted a laugh of disbelief and he smiled. “That’s quite a turnaround from the last time we spoke.”
“I was wrong. You were right. It isn’t his business, no matter what kind of relationship you or I have with him. This love, this thing that I feel for you, the way you’ve buried yourself under my skin and taken over my heart, it’s bigger and better than anything in this whole fucking world. It’s too important, too special to let anything or anyone get in the way of it. Anyone.”
Holy. Shit. “You really believe that?”
“Damn right I do. The love I have for you, Kat, it shocked the hell out of me. I mean, I’ve always loved you, but when I watched you walk away, so strong and so damn determined not to cry, I realized what I’d lost. What I’d thrown away.” He shook his head, smile bittersweet. “I’m not willing to live my life without you, not if there’s still a chance for us.” His gaze met mine, intense and filled with emotion. “Is there? Still a chance?”
I wanted to say no. wanted to tell him to go to hell for breaking my heart and leaving me so distracted I’d nearly gotten myself killed. But I couldn’t. And I didn’t want to. “How can I turn you away when you’ve owned my heart since I was sixteen?”
“Fifteen,” he corrected. “I still have the note you wrote.”
My eyes went wide. “You do not.”
“Silky locks the color of spun gold. Eyes as blue as the early morning sky.”
He chuckled when I shook my head. “I can go on.”
“No need. If I tell you that I love you, too, that I want to be with you, for real and out in the open, will you burn that letter?”
He shook his head. “Hell no. It was the first time I knew I was worthy of love from someone other than Emmett and Jas.”
“Terry.” The word came out on a whisper and I felt my heart race as I reached my hand out to him, out to an uncertain future with the man of my dreams. “You are so worthy of love and you have it, all the love I have to give and more. I’ll tell you and show you, every day until you believe it.”
“Kitty Kat,” he growled and wrapped his arms around me, apologizing when I groaned in pain. “Shit. Sorry, babe.” He flashed a teasing smile and cupped my face, kissing me until I couldn’t breathe, until I couldn’t see straight. He kissed me until I was sure that I owned his heart just as surely as he owned mine.
“I love you Terry Manning and don’t you ever doubt it for one fucking minute.”
He laughed. “Right back at you.” His blue gaze seared into mine, the moment electric between us, more so because we couldn’t act on it. Our smiles spread like goofy kids who’d just discovered the pleasures of a really good make out session.
“Now, who gets to tell Jasper?”
Terry kissed me again. “We tell him together. Along with the rest of the family.”
I smiled and dropped my head to his chest, reveling in the feel of his heart beating steady against my palm. “Okay, together. That sounds perfect.”