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The words that I had no idea I needed to hear.
He came forward, his hands framing my face. “No more fucking running. No more hiding from your problems. No more thinking you can’t trust me. We face everything together.”
A few months ago, I’d thought I was stronger because of the club and because I had Ham beside me, helping support me, lifting me up when I felt like I couldn’t do it myself.
I was wrong.
I just needed time to find that strength within myself without my mom, or the club, or Ham trying to protect me or shelter me. I needed to take time to find my own strength, my independence, so I could be the Old Lady Ham needed, and that I saw in all the women at the club.
Things had changed now. It wasn’t that I couldn’t do it without him. It was that I didn’t want to.
I looked up into his eyes and smiled. “We face everything together.”
A wide grin grew on his face, but before he could kiss me, I held up one finger.
“Out of all the things I drew, you couldn’t have chosen something I didn’t draw on a napkin while I thought I was going to die?”
He laughed softly. “I thought about it, but everything came back to this.”
“Why?” I asked with a raised brow.
“Because that was the day you chose me, and the day that I decided I wasn’t ever going to let you go.”
