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“Oh Ethan, I’m so sorry you went through so much. I wish I could have done more.”
“Trust me You wouldn’t have wanted to be around the old me. What you saw was bad, but for me to end up in juvie the amount times I did, you have to realize I was really bad.” He gives me a sad smile and there’s a weariness in his eyes that calls to me to take a look into his soul. “Like I said broken and couldn’t be fixed.”
“But that’s just the thing, when I looked at you I never thought you were broken. I never thought you needed to be fixed.” I shake my head and he gazes at me, looking straight into my eyes like he can see inside me too. “I liked you just the way you were, and I still do.”
A sensuous moment passes between us where we just stare at each other and neither of use speaks.
He moves first, pressing his forehead to mine and brushing his nose over mine too.
“Bree, I’m sorry. I wish I could turn back time. The first thing I would do is take that muffin you offered me on the beach.”
“If you could do that, maybe we’d have a different story to tell and we wouldn’t be these people and I still like this version of us.”
He moves back and smiles at me. “Me too. Come here.”
I pulls me in for a kiss I sink into and I want to relish, but now I know the truth behind my bully, I don’t want us to end.
What do I do when it happens?
Chapter25
Ethan
“Ethan where are you taking me?” Bree complains.
“Come on, baby, where’s your sense of adventure?” I reply fixing her blindfold when she whips her head around to glare at me through the cloth.
“You should know I’m giving you evil daggers. How dare you be mean to me on my birthday?”
“Trust me, it’s going to be worth it. Just keep walking.”
I keep my hand to the small of her back and guide her steps so she can place one foot in front of the other on the cobbled path I had put in last week. That was the final touch to the house she thinks she’s going to get in three months’ time.
We’ve been together for three months now. When I saw there was a way to get everything set up for her to have the house fixed up and turned into her dream spa, I did it. I wanted her to have a birthday present she’d never forget and be able to start her business sooner.
Everything is ready to go. All she has to do is give the place a name.
“In a minute you can take the blind fold off.” I whispers into her ear and she smiles.
“I’m nervous.”
“Nothing to be nervous off.”
Logan opens the door for us as quietly as possibly when he sees us. I also arranged a surprise party. Everyone we know is here, family and friends alike.
I guide Bree into the main hall I changed into a cafeteria where I have enough tables and chairs to seat fifty people. That’s where I have everyone.
Bree’s mother and Shelby look on proudly as do Quinn and her other friends. Her cousin Lucille and the other cousins are the only ones who have that uptight resting bitch faces. It’s jealousy. Even I can see it and it’s good they can be here to see Bree achieve her biggest dream.
“Ready?’ I ask Bree.
“Like yesterday.”
I slide off the blindfold from her face and when everyone yells ‘surprise,’ she gasps and brings her hands up to her cheeks.
But the real shocker is when she realizes where she is and she turns around to see what I did.
“Oh my God, what’s going on?” she looks back to me, her cheek blotchy and her eyes taking me in with awe and adoration.
