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“Is that a yes?”

“What about college?”

“I switched all my classes to online this semester,” she answered quickly, nibbling on my bottom lip until I groaned.

“What about Crash’s?”

“That depends on what we find when we go.” I pulled her arms closer. “Benjamin, are we?”

“Let’s get a move on before I take you in my parents’ driveway,” I murmured into her ear. “Get in the passenger seat. I’ll drive.”

She squealed and ran around to climb in. I started the truck up and looked over at her. “If we do leave, it’ll just be me and you… Will you still look at me the same six months from now when you’re pulled from everything and everyone you know?”

“It’s only two hours away.” She laughed freeheartedly. “It won’t be hard to come and visit… Benjamin, when we were apart, I was miserable. When I told myself we were going to one day grow apart, I pretended it was normal and that my heart wasn’t secretly ripping to shreds in the process. I think my heart knew even when you were just a friend to me that you’re the only person I need and want. If I have to spend every day and night, every second with someone, I’d want no one else.”

“You must want to be fucked,” I said with a gaze that took in the curves wrapped in the dress she wore. Even so, I cherished the things she said.

“That mouth,” she whispered, squeezing her legs together.

“Yeah, it’s going to be all over you when we find a place to stay.”

She pulled out her cell phone from between her breasts. “I’ll start looking for a hotel.”

“Emily, have I mentioned how much I love you today?”

“You have, but you can say it again if you want. Better yet, you can say it for the rest of our lives if you’d like.”

Chapter 38

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Emily

Tonight would beour last night in the apartment. First thing in the morning, we were heading out to the house we had chosen a month ago.Ourhouse. One that we had chosen together. We had fallen in love with the second house the realtor had shown us that Monday, and we hadn’t wanted to look at anymore, and Benjamin being, well Benjamin, he made sure we got it.

What were we doing on our last night in Wells, you wondered? Well…

I smiled as I placed earrings in. My hair was pulled back in a messy bun, so I figured the earrings were a must. I wore a dark pair of jeans and boots with a gray long sleeve shirt that revealed the shape of my breasts quite nicely.

We were going to Crash’s. My work family was throwing me a small get together before I left even though I had already quit two weeks ago. Katie and her husband were also going to be there since she managed to find a babysitter last minute when I told her about it right after hearing about it myself a couple of hours ago.

The floor creaked at the bathroom entrance as Benjamin leaned into the doorway. “Holy fuck, Emily.”

Thinking it was something bad, I jumped and turned around clutching my chest. “What?”

His heated gaze calmed my fear, but pumped another emotion into my veins in the process. “Your ass in those jeans…” I rolled my eyes and tried not to laugh as he started doing gorilla impressions behind me as he wrapped his arms around my stomach and kissed my neck. I closed my eyes and offered more of my neck. “I guess you do want to go to this party after all.”

I opened my eyes and studied his expression in the mirror. “Don’t you want to go?”

“Of course, I do.” Our reflections smiled at one another through the mirror. “I just kind of made plans for our last night in the apartment together but… I have all night so letting these poor saps see you one last time is a must since they’ll be the unfortunate ones that will only get to see you when we come back.”

I laughed and turned around and wrapped my arms around him. “What are we doing tonight?” I asked him.

He tucked my hair behind my ears and said, “I’m going to get you drunk.” I lifted an eyebrow up at him and he chuckled. “We can start at Crash’s, actually.” My stomach swam with nervousness and excitement.

After all this time, a lot of years of asking him, Benjamin was finally going to drink with me. Which meant, I could trust myself to let loose and know he’d be there to catch me. Our first attempt had gone up in smoke the moment we started kissing the night we had finally… I grinned as I thought about that first night together.

“So, I can get completely wasted for the first time and act a fool, and you’ll be there?”

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