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“That’s the worst of it,” he says. “Not so bad, was it?” he smiles.
I couldn’t stop myself if I wanted to, and we laughed maybe a little too hard for a couple in our situation.
But Kane’s right.
The worst is over, and the best is yet to come with him.
“Best sleepover ever,” I murmur, returning his kiss before he helps me out of the tub, covering me up from head to toe with towels.
Making me decent enough to face even my own mother.
He slips into his robe and gives me a knowing look before we go face the firing squad.
“I love you, Jen,” he tells me. “And I’d do all that a hundred times over if it meant keeping you.” He smiles, melting my heart in a single second.
I tear up when I tell him I love him too. Telling him that I am his, for keeps.
“And yeah,” he rasps.
“Best sleepover ever.”
CHAPTERTWENTY
ONE WEEK LATER
Kane
It could be argued who had the greater shock, but once Jen and I were decent, we sat down with her mom and Abby to talk.
Not shouting or screaming. We actually talked the whole time.
Abby’s only real shock was that she hadn’t figured it out sooner. Confessing, she actually never thought I’d go for a girl like Jen.
Whatever that means.
I think she means a younger girl hooking up with an older guy.
Her mom’s a different story, though. She explains that she just ‘knew’ something was going on, but seeing how happy Jen is and how comfortable she is with her new surroundings, it would be dumb of her to ignore true love when it’s staring her right in the face.
My biggest concern is Abby’s ankle. I mean, she’s physically hurt.
But it’s only a light sprain, she assures me. Admitting it’s why she was pretty much ghosting us.
She was so ashamed that her big break, her firstrealbreak, ended badly before it started.
“I picked Abs up from the airport,” Jen’s mom Sage added. “But I had to come here and just see for myself. To prove I wasn’t imagining things. Boy, was I wrong!” she’d exclaimed.
Don’t misunderstand me. She’s not exactly over the moon about Jen and me. Not by a long shot.
But once we all sat down and shared our good and bad feelings about it all, it would’ve been useless to keep droning on about everything she doesn’t like about me being with her only daughter.
Abby’s biggest beef with Jen was her not telling her up front, even though there’s a history of a crush Jen’s had on me for a while. But I never went into that.
I promised Abby I wouldn’t say anything. But I did make a mental note to quiz Jen about her crush on me later.
Something I’d be very interested in hearing as well as learning more about firsthand someday.
So with Abby laid up for at least a couple of weeks, we’ve had plenty of time to fawn over her.
