Page 117 of That First Night

“I’m like a dream?” He chuckles.

“You are.” I nod. “You know I read a lot of romance books. And when I say a lot, I meana lot.”

“Trust me,” he scoffs. “I know. The library downstairs is packed full of porn on paper.”

“Hey.” I playfully slap his arm. “It’s not porn. ‘There’s nothing wrong with a woman enjoying a little… erotica,’ as Rachel Green would say.”

“And as Joey Tribiani would say… ‘You got porn.’”

“Like I was saying.” I brush off his comment. “I read a lot of romance novels. Most of them have these happy endings. You know, with the most perfect man who swoons the shit out of the girl and does all the right things?”

“What are you telling me?” He raises a brow.

“I’m saying you arethatdream man. It’s like you stepped out of a romance novel. You are all my fantasies about fictional men come to life. I don’t know what I did to deserve you. I don’t know how you can be so perfect, swoony, sexy, and everything a girl could dream of. But you are. You’re here. Standing right in front of me. You’re my happy ending, Thomas.”

“But… I’m not.” He shakes his head.

“What…” I’m taken back by his comment. “What do you mean by that?”

“It means that I am not your happy ending.” He smirks. “Because that would mean that there will be an ending. Baby, you’re stuck with me for life. I put a ring on your finger because I want you for the rest of my life. I want to grow old with you. I want to put babies inside of you. Yes, plural.” I chuckle at him. “I don’t ever want to live another minute of my life without you.”

His arms tighten around my waist, and he lifts me up, so my legs wrap around him. Instinctively, my arms circle his neck and I smile down at him.

“You’re my forever, baby.” He plants a kiss on my lifts. “There will be no happy ending in this book. This is a forever kind of thing. You’re my happy forever.”

“That doesn’t make sense.” I giggle in his arms.

“Make it make sense.” He kisses me again. “Because I’m making it our thing.”

“I love you, Thomas. And I always will.”

“I love you too, Sunshine.”