Page 43 of The One Who Got Away

“Did you ever hear the story of my parents?”

“No.”

“My dad asked my mom to marry him in ten days.”

“Holy Hannah.”

“Yeah. They’re waiting for one of us to beat the clock.”

“You already lost.”

“I definitely won, but I knew I loved you when I was fifteen. Still took me a few years to figure it out. It kept getting tangled up in hormones.”

“And you never made a move.” I linked my fingers at the back of his neck.

“I want to say I regret it, but maybe we wouldn’t be here.”

My heart turned over in my chest. “Maybe. I kinda think we would, though.”

“Yeah?”

I nodded. “It just took us a little time to get it right.”

“And I’m never letting you go, again.”

“Even when I come as a package deal?” I wasn’t sure when my mom would be ready to be out on her own again.

“We’ll figure it out. I actually have a few ideas.”

“Is that right?”

He nodded. “Besides—as long as I have you, everything else will work out.”

I went up on my toes and he met me in the middle.

I always wondered if he was the one who got away. I should have known better.

We were simply always meant to be.

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