Page 122 of The Doctors Will See You Now

“It’s a lie, you know,” he said, and I startled, my eyebrows pulling together.

“Your heart is way bigger.”

I had to pull my lips in on each other to fight the sting of tears buzzing in my nose. “You did all of this for me?”

His response was immediate and without hesitation. “I’d do anything for you.”

“God, Will,” I whispered through the emotion clogging my throat. “This is… It’s just…”

“You deserve this,” he said and slid his fingers underneath my chin until my eyes locked with his. “This is your purpose, Mel. This is what you’re supposed to do. And that’s why this is now your clinic.”

Somehow, Will had not only found a way to find investors for the one thing I’d become most passionate about, but he’d also named the clinic after me. It was almost too much information to process at one time.

“W-what do you mean, my clinic?”

He grinned. “I think it’s safe to assume that The Melody Marco Women’s Clinic has to be run by Melody Marco herself.”

“God, Will.” My lungs stuttered with each inhale and exhale. “I don’t even know what to say…”

“Melody Marco, I’m in love with you,” he said and, like a drum, my heart made itself known inside my chest. “I don’t want anyone else. Just you. Beautiful, brilliant, perfect you. I know, without a doubt, that I’ll never love anyone the way that I love you.”

Each one of his words touched my heart, and like a thread, they slowly sewed the wounded pieces back together.

“You’re everything to me,” he continued. “You’re the one and only person I want to wake up to every morning and the one I want to hold while we fall asleep at night. When I see you, I see forever, and I don’t want a life without you in it.”

I didn’t want a life without Will either.

I wanted him. I wanted us. And I wanted forever, too.

“I love you,” I whispered through my tears. “So, so much.”

“Yay!” Georgia squealed, but Will didn’t seem to notice.

He closed the space between us and enfolded his arms around my body until he lifted me off of my feet and wrapped my legs around his waist. “I love you, Melody. I love you so fucking much.”

I burrowed my face into his neck and inhaled his scent—clean laundry, his soft cologne, Will. God, I’d missed him, missed this, missed us. The mere thought of thinking I could have lived a life without him made my breath come in short pants.

I’m finally home.

I leaned back, and when my teary gaze met his, he asked, “So, are you going to accept the position to run the clinic?”

I giggled through my tears. “I guess it’d be a little weird if Melody Marco were working somewhere else, huh?”

A soft smile slid across his lips. “Those patients need you, Mel.”

“And I need those patients,” I stated and wrapped my arms tight around his neck. “But there’s something else I think I need even more.”

“What?” I almost laughed at the fact that he looked genuinely confused, until I remembered that that doubt was doubt I’d planted there.

I leaned close and put everything I felt into one word. “You.”

He brushed his nose softly against mine, excitement making his limbs flex into me. “You love me?”

I nodded. “I love you.”

“Thank God,” he muttered and melded his lips to mine. The kiss started out slow and tender, until we both felt the electricity of our special bond spark to life. Will’s lips became more persistent, and mine followed suit as I kissed him hard and deep and without concern for where we were or who might have been watching.

“Aww!” Georgia cheered and clapped her hands excitedly.