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o;It was.”
She nodded.
“Cricket?”
“Yes?”
“I’m so in love with you.”
A tear escaped her, cascading slowly down the side of her cheek. I ran the back of my index finger up the trail before I licked the tear.
“I’m so in love with you.”
My hand went to my chest right over my heart and my eyes closed. It beat so wildly. Her words floored me.
“Don’t ever leave me again,” she said quietly.
“I couldn’t if I tried,” I said, setting the sculpture near her hand, purposely grazing her fingertips with mine. She gasped softly.
“I’ve been miserable without you,” she said, another tear falling.
I leaned in and kissed that tear away and her breath hitched.
“I’ve been practically catatonic without you,” I admitted.
That earned me her clever smile and I almost fell backward.
“Then what are you waiting for?” she asked.
“I have no idea,” I breathed, rushing her in that moment.
She wrapped her arms around my neck and I picked her up off the wall. She locked her legs around my waist and I kissed her like our lives depended on it. That same drugging, intoxicating sensation rushed over both of us. The one that told us we were made for one another and that the chemistry between us couldn’t be created with any other human.
Cricket Hunt, part owner of my kidneys, the girl who called me on my crap and the girl I was gonna marry someday. She was the girl that could bowl me over with one smile. She was the girl who consumed my thoughts and my heart.
Cricket Hunt was my fate.
Epilogue
Four years later…
“No, no. Her dress is getting dirty. Just pick her up.”
I picked up the little girl with the halo of bright blonde curls and set her on my hip. I made a goofy face and she laughed.
“You’re so funny, Uncle Spencer!” she giggled, her little hand going to her mouth.
“Your Aunt Cricket doesn’t seem to think so,” I whispered conspiratorially.
Cricket rolled her eyes but fought a smile.
“We better hurry or your mama is going to be so mad!”
Her bright green eyes widened and she nodded.
