Page 45 of Hope & Harmony

“Take the time off, Andi. I’ll show you around the city, and then...” This was the part he hadn’t told her, the thing she didn’t know. “Then, I’m taking you to a recording studio. You’re going to record ‘Bigger Dreams’.”

“What do you mean record it?”

He gave her a crooked grin. “You never asked me what I do for a living.” She tilted her head, curious. “I’m a music producer.”

Her eyes widened.

“I want to help you achieve your dreams, but more than that, I want to keep seeing you.”

“Joel,” she began.

He placed his finger on her lips. “Don’t say no. Think about it. I’m offering you a way to make all those wild hopes and dreams of yours come true.”

“We only just met, Joel.”

He couldn’t argue with that, but he was old enough to understand that it didn’t matter. “I know that. This is going toofast, but I don’t care. This,” he said, pointing to himself, then her. “This is powerful, overwhelming. It’s also right. I knew it from the second I met you, even before I heard you sing.”

Andi bit her lower lip, then said the sweetest words he’d ever heard. “I felt it, too.”

“This is just the beginning of something incredible. Something perfect.”

This time, Andi initiated the kiss, all shades of hesitance gone. It was a hungry kiss, full of passion and desire.

“Say yes, Andi. To visiting New York. To recording the song. To giving me a chance to prove to you just how right this thing between us is.”

He held his breath as she gave him that same sweet smile that had stolen his heart and said the greatest word he’d ever heard.

“Yes.”

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