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ISTO TELL YOU I LOVE YOU EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE.
I stood back and read the messages out loud. “‘All I want is to tell you I love you every day of my life.’ Huh. You might have totaled your car, but you’re one lucky bastard to be loved like that.”
“No. I’m one lucky woman.”
I spun around to find Anne standing there. “Where did you come from?”
Smiling, she said, “Right where you left me.” She stepped closer and said, “What do you think?”
“About the car?” I asked, no longer even thinking about it. All that mattered was standing right in front of me.
“I meant the note,” she said.
I looked at the car, then the note, and turned back to Anne. “You did this?” She nodded.
“I got your text and I…I wanted to tell you that I love you, too.”
My text?I didn’t recall texting her and telling her I loved her. It was true, but how could I not remember it. Shit. I texted her when I was drunk. I thought I dreamt it. I should apologize, but did it really matter at this point? The important thing is that it brought us together again.
“Anne, I should have told you what I was doing. I fucked up and I’m sorry. I’m…not going to make that mistake again.”
“I know why you did it. Every time you tried to talk to me about the club, I stopped you. I know how important it is to you, to your development project. That’s why I’m here.”
“I’m not doing the development anymore,” I said.
“But you can now.” She handed me an envelope and I opened it.
It didn’t need to read it all to know what it was. “Anne, this is the deed to the land for the club.”
She nodded. “I am not closing it, just moving it. All I need is sixty days to get everything settled. I hope you don’t mind granting me that time.”
I handed her back the deed and said, “I have no use for this any longer.”
“But it’s what you wanted,” Anne said, a note of doubt creeping into her voice.
“Yes. I did. But the funny thing is, while in Bermoose I learned there is a difference between want and need. I wanted the land. But I need you.”
I watched her eyes glisten with tears. “I need you, too.”
I pulled her into my arms and said, “I love you, Anne.”
“I love you too, Andrew.”
I kissed her briefly, knowing that if I claimed her lips too long, the passion I’d tried to bury would take over. Besides, there was something I needed to tell her before we went any further.
“I need to tell you something, Anne.”
“I know all I need to, Andrew. You love me. We can figure the rest out later,” she said.
I wish it was that easy. The last time I kept something from her I almost lost her. Never again. “Sweetheart, I want to explain why I don’t want your land anymore.”
“You can, but it’s already done. I went to the courthouse and signed the deed over to you.”
I laughed. “And what do you expect me to do with it when I no longer own all the land surrounding it?” I said.
“You sold it?” she asked.
“No. I…signed it over to you.”
