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So willing to give herself to me.
Say it, dickhead. Stop being a fucking pussy.
My hand came around the side of her neck, fingers splayed across her gorgeous cheek. “I need to tell you something.”
A thick ball lodged in my throat, making it difficult to speak. Not because I wasn’t feeling it—it was the exact opposite.
I felt it all.
It was too much in a million ways, yet I only wanted more, which made no sense.
Loving someone was not in my plans.
But I was in too deep. There was no turning back.
“Tell me,” she said. She didn’t hide her concern as she searched my gaze. “Are you okay? You can tell me anything.”
This was what I was talking about.
There was no turning back.
“I—” I paused to clear my throat. “I love you, Georgia.”
I’d never said those words to any woman aside from my mother and grandmother. And now I’d said them, and I didn’t have the urge to run. But my heart raced as if I’d crossed some imaginary line that had made me vulnerable in a way.
I didn’t mind it, though.
I wanted her to know how I felt.
Neededher to know how I felt.
She sucked in a breath, her mouth falling into a perfect O. As if she never thought I’d say those words.
Neither did I. But here we are.
“I’ve loved you for a long time now.” She blinked a few times as two tears slipped down her cheek. I ran the pad of my thumb over her tears and swiped them away.
“Me, too. It just took me a while to get here.”
“It doesn’t matter how we got here. We’re here now, and that’s all that matters,” she whispered.
She was right.
Now we just needed to find our new normal together.
I just hoped after a night with the Lancasters, she wouldn’t be running for the door.
twenty-seven
Georgia
Maddox Lancaster loved me.
I’d known it for a while now, but I never thought he’d actually admit it.
I felt it every time he looked at me. Every time he kissed me.
He wasn’t a man who tossed those words around casually.
