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“Another one,” I begged, waiting for her to kiss me again.

“One is enough.”

I shook my head. “I require a kiss for every second between the moment you realized you loved me, to the exact moment in time you finally told me.”

“Heard that, eh?” Her cheeks flushed, her lips pulling up into a smile. “That’s like a million kisses.”

“Only eleven days?” I sighed. “I don’t care; I can count to a million.”

Sterlie laughed, wrapping her arms around my neck. “Two.” Her lips laid on mine, but this time I was quick to pull away.

“Zero,” I said. “The first one didn’t count, neither did this one. We’re starting from scratch.”

“What happens if we miscount?”

I shrugged. “We’ll start over, obviously.”

EPILOGUE

FOREVER

One Year Later

Sterlie Adams

Milo was being so weird this morning.

For the past year, he insisted he stayed home until I was ready to leave to open the boutique, then he’d drop me off and go to whatever meeting he was needed at. Basically, he was driving over to Tartarus and doing some calls before ordering his family around. I wasn’t sure when ordering them around became his favorite part of the day, but it did at some point.

Well, his favorite part after everything that involved me, so he insisted.

This morning, he left just after I woke up. I got a quick good morning kiss and then he was gone. We didn’t even have breakfast together like usual. And he didn’t even try to sneak into the shower with me.

It was a very sad morning.

I was now on my way to the boutique, sitting in the back of the car because I thought it was strange when I sat in the front since Michael was driving me. I didn’t have a driver’s license as sitting behind the wheel scared the living shit out of me.

There was so much to look out for while driving, estimating the distance to other cars, not just paying attention to the music that was playing… yeah, driving wasn’t for me. But that was okay because my boyfriend was driving me around anyway—at least he used to.

Since he rushed out earlier, I decided to send him a text to check in on him.

Sterlie

You good?

He replied instantly, as usual.

Milo

For now

Sterlie

What’s that supposed to mean?

Big meeting coming up?

Milo

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