Page 72 of Promise Yule Be Mine
"Yeah," I raised an eyebrow sensing what was about to come out of her mouth.
"And if at the end you like each other and want to be together..."
"Yeah," Kody added in the same tone, probably guessing too.
"You can get married instead."
I knew it.
"You must be out of your mind," I said.
"Jenna!" Kody reprimanded her.
"What?" she shrugged. "A day ago you were ready to marry your best friend and give up on love for the rest of your life. Now you have a chance at true love. Why not?"
"Because!" Kody said.
"It's too soon," I added.
"You guys do know divorce is still a thing, right? It's not been banned yet."
"Oh yeah. What a great reason to get married. Let's do it because we can always split up." I said.
Jenna groaned. "Oh my God. You guys, if you'd rather waste all that money."
"That's not a good reason to get married either," Kody said.
"And the reason we were going to marry each other was better?" Jenna grimaced. "Besides, you guys told me yourselves. You've never felt like this before. You're in love with each other. I've known you both for half my life. I don't know about you Nova, but you, Kody, you've never been like this about anyone. I could sense it in the air when you saw him. I could read it in the tea leaves. You're completely smitten with Nova."
Was it hot in here? Had someone cranked up the heating?
Was he really smitten?
Gosh, get your head screwed on, Nova. Of course he's smitten. He said as much last night. He’d shown me in every possible way since then.
Kody's cheeks were red, making him look even more adorable if that was even possible, and his gray eyes bored into mine. "I am, to be honest," he mumbled.
"And you," Jenna turned to me, "are smitten with him. I don't know if you've ever felt like this for anyone, but I'm willing to bet all my money that you haven't."
I closed my eyes, bit my lip and shook my head. "I…I haven't."
"There, see? So why not take this wild chance on each other? What if the way you feel after six, seven days of knowing each other is a sign that you're meant to be together? What if this is the universe's way of telling you you’ve found the one?"
I looked at Kody and he looked at me. I tuned Jenna out completely as she went on and on before she started making sense and I took a deep breath.
Kody smiled and reached for my hand.
Oh my God. Were we really considering this? Were we going to listen to Jenna?
I squeezed his hand back and felt a tingling in my fingers. It crawled up my arm, spreading out all over my body stealing my breath—and sense—away.
"Okay. Le-let's do it," I said.
Besides, no one said we had to get married at the end of these two weeks. We had all that time to figure out exactly just how compatible we were, although from what I already knew about him, I already knew we were made for each other.
Kody just had to find out for himself too, if he didn't know already.
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