Page 14 of Hers to Marry
“Do you remember this was the exact spot we were going to build our house?” she said with a cute chuckle.
Oh.He’d forgotten about that. “Um…”
She gave him a sideways glance. “When we ran away? We said we’d build here. Look, there’s the tree where we carved our initials.”
She jogged over to a tree, and Drew hesitantly followed. The memory came flooding back. The morning they ran away after Drew had refused to accept his family’s move to Guam. His parents could take his sister if they wanted, but he wasn’t going anywhere.
He stared at the initials carved near the base of the tree. Kat traced them with her fingers. “Still there. K and K for me and A and C for you.” She smiled up at him.
“Yeah… That was a long time ago.” He turned away. All the emotions he’d felt the night before when he had made the decision, and then when the two of them had finally arrived here. It had been terrifying at first, but soon he’d felt free. He was with Kat, after all. They could do anything together. They would make it.
Now he could hear his grandmother’s voice yelling in his head that he was choosing the wrong girl. Parker couldn’t compare to Kat—a hometown girl who could bake him into diabetes, and he’d let her. He silenced that voice with one phrase:I love Parker.
Kat was chuckling awkwardly. “Well, at least one of us gets to live in that house. I hope you’ll let me visit.” Her voice held expectantcy.
He said nothing and moved closer to the water’s edge.
“When are you going to buy it?” she called from the tree.
“I bought it yesterday.”
