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I can’t move. Everything hurts too much.
Koen opens the door. “Come with me.”
“Why?”
“Because I need more space than this trailer gives me, but the distance from my place to yours is too much.”
He. Came. Back.
Maybe not with a bouquet and a big smile, but he came back. I grab my bag and keys and follow him. He doesn’t give me asecond look before hopping into his truck and backing out of the lot while I climb into my truck and follow him.
When we get to his place, he heads straight into the bathroom to shower. I steal a T-shirt and slip it on, then I brush my teeth in the half bath on the main level. By the time he exits the bathroom, I’m in bed with my back to him and my heart in my throat. He slides into bed and shuts off the lights.
The silence haunts me.
The fear of losing Koen haunts me.
Price Milloy … he guts me.
My heart thumps to the point of a dull ache in my chest before I drift off to sleep.
In the middle of the night, Koen’s arms wake me, wrapping around my waist and pulling me into his body. “I can’t sleep,” he whispers. “The distance is too much.”
I roll toward him, nuzzling my face in his neck.
“I’m sorry you had a bad day,” he says.
Words die deep in my throat behind a mass of swelling emotions. Tears fill my eyes. And I hold still, willing them away.
He’s the one. The person who becomes everything you never knew you needed.
“Scottie?”
“Hmm?” It’s all I can manage.
“Move in with me.”
What?
Forcing my breaths to slow and my heart to calm, I let those four words play in my head until I can form actual words. “I need to think about it.”
“Take your time.”
One breath.
Two breaths.
Three breaths.
“I’m done thinking. I’ll move in with you.”
His chest vibrates with a chuckle, which steals some of my pain and replaces it with hope.
“But I must warn you, I’m a little messy.”
“Ya don’t say?”
“Can you love the messy parts of my life?” I kiss his shoulder.
