Page 57 of Daring to Love

He grins down at me, and bends to place a lingering kiss on my lips.

“I’ll spend the rest of my life telling you how much you mean to me, Amelie Winters.”

My belly swarms with butterflies at his talk about our joint future.

I get up on my toes and fist his hair in my fingers.

“That part when you wrote you don’t believe in the stars?”

His eyes no longer dance with mirth; instead, they darken the closer my mouth comes to his, awakening my own desire.

“What about it?”

“I still think you’re wrong. Aries and Virgos are a match made in heaven.”

“Bollocks.”

I blink innocently at him.

“Are you saying you don’t believe we were meant to be?”

“Aye, that we are, but I still don’t think the stars have anything to say about it.”

I open my mouth to argue, but I don’t get another word out as he closes the distance between us and meshes his mouth with mine. My lips tingle as I feel his tongue sweeping inside my mouth, and fire erupts in my entire being. The longer we kiss, the more I lose all ability to think rational thoughts, but the kiss doesn’t last long as a loud cough makes its way to my ears, and Fin releases my lips. I blink, slightly befuddled in my head at the fog of lust swimming through me, but when I feel his muscles tense, I twist my head around the breadth if his shoulders, and the hard stare of my beloved dad’s makes my heart plummet. I grimace at the cheeky smile Mamán aims at me.

“You have a lot of explaining to do, young man,” Daddy bellows.

I grit my teeth and look up at Fin.

“Want to meet my parents?”

Nerves dance in my belly, a little worried Fin is going to make a run for it. But I really ought to know that’s not the type of bloke he is. My arms fall down his arms, and I move to take a step back, but Fin doesn’t balk. Instead, he straightens his back and takes my hand firmly in his, and I breathe a small smile of relief. The warmth in his eyes as he looks down at me sets me fully at ease.

“I’d love to.”

I grin up at him as I entwine our fingers.

Things have a certain way of sorting themselves out, and as I take in the way Fin acts around the two most important people in my life, I still hold on to the belief that fate plays a big part in putting us in each other’s paths.

Because Fin and me?

I believe we were meant to be.

I believe that we were written in the stars.

There’s no doubt in my mind that we’ll have to face many storms together in our lives – that there’ll be times when we’ll even hurt each other – but at the heart of them, love will see us through them.