Page 47 of My Summer Fling

“Which is?”

He said it in the letter, but I want to hear him say it. I need to hear those words from his lips so I know it’s real. He smiles at me again, and his thumbs rub my cheeks.

“I love you, Millie. And I will spend the rest of our lives trying to prove it to you. Every day we spend together will be a day that I show you just how much.” He takes a deep breath. “If you’ll have me.”

I stare up at him, my throat aching as I try to hold back the tears. A few tears roll down my cheeks, and a smile breaks out across my face.

“Please have me, Millie. Come home.”

“You’re infuriating, Noah Harding.” His face falls just slightly. “But I love you, too. And I forgive you.”

“Yes!” he cries out before pulling my lips to his in a rough and passionate kiss.

We both laugh as our lips pull apart and he lifts me into a hug, picking me up and swinging me around in circles. People are clapping and cheering from the tent as they watch us.

“Put me down!” I tell him through my laughter. “We have an audience, and today is about Teddy and Beth, not us.”

“Oh, shut up, Millie,” he says, sitting me down and kissing me again. “Let them watch.”

Reader, I married him.

Ha! Just kidding. I am not my girl Jane Eyre who, in my opinion, married that guy way too fast just because he was blinded in the fire. Like, did he even apologize?

It’s been a year since Noah and I became a thing, and we’ve been working hard on our past trauma and moving forward in the relationship. After the wedding, he moved his whole life to this little island because he knew how much it meant to me to be here, and he fell in love with it as well. It’s hard fitting two grown ass adults and a sixty-pound dog in a one-bedroom cottage, but we make it work.

It’s cozy.

And we have the beach. Which is where we are now. The sun is setting, and I’m laying against his chest while Annie rests on his other side, curled up in a ball with her head on his hip. I’d say it was cute how much she loves him if I didn’t think she would leave me if he gave her the chance.

Noah just got back from traveling up north for a few weddings, and it’s kind of embarrassing how much I missed him. It’s not that I can’t exist on my own anymore, it’s just that I don’t want to. I love our little family we’ve created here. And when we’re ready to add to it, we’ve discussed adding onto the cottage so I don’t have to say goodbye to it.

“What are you thinking so hard about?” he asks before giving me a kiss on my head. I tug him closer to my body and breathe in his scent. God, I’ve missed him this past week.

“About you,” I drawl. “Our future and what it looks like.”

“Oh, you’re finally considering accepting?” I can hear the smile in his voice.

Oh, yeah. I did forget to mention that Noah has been proposing randomly ever since that night on the beach at Teddy’s wedding. And it’s not that I don’t want to, I do. But the old Millie keeps creeping in to tell me that this isn’t going to last.

Stupid, I know.

But not every relationship needs to fit the mold of a romantic comedy. Right?

We’re happy and that’s all that matters.

“You know I’m always considering it,” I tell him, leaning my head back to I can look him in the eyes. The sun is highlighting all the reddish-blonde streaks in his hair, and it’s making his brown eyes look like melted chocolate.

“Oh, I know that look,” he says, his mischievous smile coming out to play.

“Noah,” I say in a warning tone before I roll off of him and start laughing. “Last one to the shower is a rotten egg!”

I take off running before he’s even standing up. Annie is chasing me, hot on my heels as she barks playfully. I get inside with Annie first, telling her to go lie down as I try to make my way down the hall.

I’m stripping off my bathing suit when Noah comes in behind me, naked as the damn day he was born and showing off all those amazing leg tattoos. His cock is bobbing as he runs after me, and I get too distracted to move.

He sweeps me up and over his shoulder in a fireman’s carry. My face is greeted with his gorgeous ass, and I sink my teeth into it, making him howl before he gives me a hard swat on my ass. The sting goes straight to my already throbbing pussy.

“Ow!” I cry out through my laughter. “Unfair! All I did was give you a little love nibble!”

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