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“Hockey?” I choke out through a tightening throat.
But he’s already shaking his head. “I choose you.”
My heart goes into free fall, and this time I can’t even form words. But he’s there, rubbing his hand over my shoulder and arm, touching me like he needs the contact as much as I do.
“Cam, if— if that’s too fast or you don’t feel comfortable yet—”
“No.” Pushing up on my arms, I brace above him to take a kiss and breathe him in. “Not too fast.” It’s four years past the time I should have grabbed him with both arms and never let go. “It’s just there are more options here than you giving up your career. The sport you love. Your dream. Because, yeah, I know that’s what this is. I remember lying out in that field beneath the stars all those years ago and you telling me you’d been dreaming of playing hockey since you were old enough to put on skates.”
“Yeah, and you told me the only thing you’d ever wanted was to run your dad’s store with him. It’s the reason we broke up. This town, this life is your dream and it’s no less important than mine. Besides, dreams change. Mine is being with you.”
And mine is spending the rest of my life working to be worthy of the kind of love this man is giving me.
“Trevor, listen—”
But he isn’t ready. “Why would you come with me? I can’t offer you stability. Hell, after training camp, I have no idea which city I’ll even be living in. If it’s like the end of last season, it could be both. It could be like that for a long time. And then there’s the travel. You’d be left alone—”
“Trev, that stuff— hell, I don’t know what that will be like, but we can figure it out as we go. That stuff isn’t stability to me. You are. Having someone I love who loves me back. Someone who wants our life, whatever it looks like and wherever it takes us, to be… together.”
His face twists like he’s in pain. “I don’t want to wreck your life.”
“Then don’t make me watch you sacrifice who you are and everything you’ve worked for because you think it’s what I need.”
“But you love it here. Your whole life is here.”
Taking his hand in mine, I hold it to my heart. “I do love it here. And I expect we’ll spend a lot of vacations here. We can have both. I’ll find a team to swim on or play water polo with during your season. I’ll watch your games and meet your friends. I’ll— we’ll build a life that we can love together.”
I wait for his argument, ready to talk it through all night or however long it takes for him to see, to believe. But then the most magical, amazing fucking thing happens. A tentative smile breaks across his lips.
My heart starts to hammer, and I kiss him hard and quick, pulling back to see that smile stretch as he begins to nod with me. “So we’re doing this? Really?”
“Yeah, Trevor.” I laugh, and kiss him again. “We’re really doing it.”
And then he’s laughing too, his eyes tearing up. “I don’t know what to say.”
“Why don’t you tell me you love me again, because I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of hearing it.”
“I love you. I’m so damn in love with you, I can barely see straight. And I’m totally bringing you coffee tomorrow and watching you ring up sales in that hot freaking shirt all day.”
Him and that shirt. “The guys will be thrilled.”
And they are.
About the Author
Hard core romantic, stress baker, and housekeeper non-extraordinaire, Mira Lyn Kelly is a USA TODAY bestselling author with over a million readers worldwide. She writes sizzly love stories with hot, possessive heroes who know how to laugh, heroines who give as good as they get, friends as close as family, and happily ever afters up-against-the-wall style! Growing up in the Chicago area, she earned her degree in Fine Arts from Loyola University and met the love of her life while studying abroad in Rome, Italy… only to discover he’d been living right around the corner from her back home. Mira now lives in Minnesota with her husband, four amazing children and two ridiculous dogs. When she isn’t reading, writing, or indulging her weakness for hard cut abs, she can be found running the kids around, watching the Chicago Blackhawks, and cooking with her family and friends. Want to know when Mira has a new book releasing? Sign up for her newsletter at: http://www.miralynkelly.com/newsletter
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