Page 9 of Reid's Fixation
“I’m Mila. I guess we are walking down the aisle together?”
He nodded, and then cleared his throat, “I’m Reid. Emery’s older brother.”
She smiled up at him and he felt his heart skip a beat.
Never in his life had he felt like this. The girls in his high school had been shallow and not worth his time, but this girl? He could see his entire future with her.
He held his elbow out to her and she took it. He could feel his body jerk to life, like she had stuck an electric wire to his skin.
He looked down at her in shock and she gave him a wink, like she hadn’t known that she had just changed his entire life.
When they walked down the aisle together, he could picture their wedding like it was clear as day.
He wanted nothing more than to kick himself for his thoughts and for all the crazy that was running through his head, but he couldn’t stop them if he tried.
Like her barefoot and pregnant, holding their oldest child on her hip and smiling at him as he came home from work.
He'd barely spoken four words to her and here he was seeing their future flash before his eyes.
It was so unlike him it wasn’t even funny.
But yet? He didn’t give a single flying fuck.
He just soaked it up and watched her when they got to the end of the aisle and parted ways.
She smiled the entire time, her eyes filled with joy and happiness and he wanted her to look at him with her golden eyes.
When Emery and Trace said their vows, he watched as she whisked away a tear and it made him fall in love with her right then. Her sweet heart was going to be his. He wanted nothing more than to hold her in his arms and show her just how he loved her.
He thought Trace was crazy for seeing Emery only one time and knowing that she was his. But seeing Mila? He understood one hundred percent that Trace felt the way he did.
When they had to walk back down the aisle, she carefully held his arm, and leaned in, “Are you doing okay? With your arm and burns? I know you were hurt when the bomb exploded.”
He nodded, “I am. It isn’t easy, having one arm unable to do the things it has before.”
She looked up at him, compassion crossing her face. “I'm so sorry it happened and that you got hurt so badly.”
He looked down at her, “I'm not in the least. I knew that Trace would have died willingly, and it wasn’t fair. He just found his girl. You know? I knew that he couldn’t leave her. Not like that.”
She shook her head, “But what about you?”
He gave as good of a shrug as he could, “I didn’t think about me at that moment. Just saving Trace’s life was my top priority.”
She gave him a soft smile, “I bet you have no idea what you did for them.”
He nodded, “I do. I would rather deal with all of this and spare them that pain than to have my sister always mourning for the love she has searched for her entire life.”
They finished walking and she locked eyes with him and then heard her name called, and their moment was gone.
She looked back at him, “Well, I think you are extremely brave for doing what you did.”
“Thank you. I appreciate that.”
She nodded and was pulled away for pictures and things and he hated being separated from her.
That entire night, Reid watched her from afar.
He didn’t want to lose sight of the girl that stole the heart straight out of his chest.
