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Life’s moved so quickly these past few years. So incredibly quickly. At Jax’s and Sumemr’s encouragement, I managed to get my GED and started taking college classes. I have my associates right now and I work at a nonprofit domestic violence shelter for omegas.

It’s really fulfilling work for me and I guess now it’ll give me something to focus on while I get used to Summer being all grown up.

“Thank you, Livvy,” Summer says, pulling back to look up at me with big, watery eyes. “I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for you.”

“No need to thank me,” I say, cupping her face. “I’m so incredibly proud of you. You’re going to do amazing things.”

Summer pulls away and turns to give Jax a hug too. “Thank you too,” She says.

“You’re very welcome, kid, you deserve this.”

Summer smiles at the both of us. “I’m gonna go call Allison and my friends and stuff now and tell them the good news!”

“And that’s our cue, time for the uncool adults to head out,” Jax laughs taking my hand.

“You guys are cool!” Summer calls before we shut the door.

I wrap my arm around his waist and breath in his firewood scent as we head down the hall to our room.

“How’re you doing?” Jax asks me.

“Good,” I say, smiling up at him. “I’m so proud of her, she worked her ass off to get here.”

“How do you feel about her moving out? About her growing up and stuff? You’ve worked basically your entire life to protect and provide for her, so I bet this must be a big change.”

“Like I said, I feel good,” tugging him down onto the bed for us to cuddle next to each other. “She turned out okay, pretty great, actually. So mission accomplished.”

I look up at him, meeting his deep, gray eyes so full of compassion. In the years that we’ve been together, he’s impressed me every single day with how much he cares about me.

“Whatever happens in life, I know everything will be okay. Because I have you. Because we have each other. The two of us can actually live life now that we have each other. I love you so much.”

“And I love you, Liv. You make me so incredibly happy.”

“You saved me, you know, when you found me,” I say, reaching up to stroke his face. “You’re my savior.”