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“Are we?” he asked, kissing me several more times.

“I told you the roof was a good place to think.”

“Let’s stay out here forever,” he said.

“Okay,” I responded, snaking my arm around his waist and pulling myself tighter against him.

Chapter 39

Now

“You feel good,” Beau said.It was well past sunset. We’d been lying on the roof talking in between kisses, holding each other close. I was starting to get cold, but I didn’t want to leave this moment.

I pulled back a little so I could look at him. “How long have you loved me?”

“Since the second I met you.”

I rolled my eyes. “Now the real answer.”

“Honestly, I don’t know. I think it was gradual. Harper accused me of loving you.”

“She accused me of that too, you loving me, when I got your books. Oh, also, I have a message from her to you.” I cleared my throat. “Screw you.” I said it nice and sweet, like she had.

He cringed. “She told you to tell me that?”

“She did.”

“I feel bad.”

“I think she’ll be okay.”

“I’m easy to get over?” he asked.

“Something like that,” I said back.

“What did you say to her?” he asked. “When she accused me of loving you?”

“I said that I didn’t know.”

“I didn’t know either. Obviously, if I knew I loved you, I wouldn’t have asked her out, stayed with her. But when she told me that, I realized she was right.”

“So I have her to thank for this?”

“No,” he said, kissing me again. “You have you to thank.”

I let out a short laugh and propped myself up on my elbows, looking out over the yard. I could see over the neighbor’s fence in the distance; they had one of those wooden play structures. “You’re not easy to get over, by the way.”

“Neither are you.”

“Will you help me think of a way to get Ava and Caroline to talk to me?”

“Yes,” he said. “We should probably talk to them together anyway, tell them about this.”

“About what?” I teased.

“That we kiss now,” he said back.

“Can we kiss all the time?”