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“Are you sure?” I ask, looking at her for direction.
“Go ahead. He’d just whine and cry until he got his way anyway,” she retorts with a smile.
“Zip it, Tori. I want my girl right beside me,” Levi says, reaching his hand for me.
“Your blood pressure’s high. Let’s try not to elevate it any more, shall we?” Tori quips with a wide grin.
Gently, I make my way to where Levi’s lying. I collapse onto the bench, tears silently falling to where our hands are now joined. He feels warm, alive, and I’m so damned grateful.
“Are you okay?” I whisper, resting my forehead on his bare shoulder.
“I am now,” he exhales deeply into my hair.
“I was so scared,” I confess, gazing up at him.
“I was too.” My body shudders as he gently grabs a strand of my hair and moves it behind my ear, caressing my cheek and wiping my tears as he does.
“Listen to me,” I sniffle. “I can’t believe I’m thinking of myself right now. Of course you were scared. I can’t imagine how frightened you must have been.”
His eyes study me, his throat working hard to swallow his emotions. “Yeah, falling through the floor was a bit scary, but that’s not what terrified me the most.” He reaches for me again, stroking my wet cheek with his thumb.
“No?”
“I was afraid I’d never get to see you again. I was worried I missed my chance to tell you that I love you.”
My entire body seizes up as his words permeate my brain. “Love?”
Levi smiles and nods his head. “Yeah, love. I’m glad you’re here now because it gives me the opportunity to finally tell you that I love you. I’ve loved you most of my life; I was just too stupid to see it,” he says with a smile, making me chuckle. “But I see it now, I feel it and know it, and I’m not letting you go. I love you, Abby.”
“I love you, too,” I whisper as tears of joy fall to where our hands are linked.
My lips meet his in a welcome kiss. His lips are warm and soft and taste like smoke, but I don’t care. The fact that I can kiss him again at all is reason to celebrate.
A slow beep fills the ambulance, drawing my attention away from Levi. “What’s that?” I ask, gazing down at his love-filled eyes.
“My pulse. It’s soaring,” he quips with a smirk.
Laughing, I try to pull away, but am stopped by strong arms. “Where do you think you’re going?”
“I’m going to sit back and let them do their thing.”
“What about my thing? I wouldn’t mind you doing something to that,” he sasses from the gurney.
“You’re bad,” I chastise, swatting at his shoulder.
“Maybe. But do you know what?” he asks, pulling me back down so that my head is lying on his shoulder.
“What?”
“I love you.” I can’t help but smile widely at his words and the meaning he puts behind them. “Get used to hearing it, angel, because I’m going to say it. A lot.”
With a smile on my lips and my head against his chest, I close my eyes and drift off to the steady beat of his heart.
