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There was no one else in this world like Bailey, and I knew that the second I laid eyes on her almost seven years ago.
Sometimes I would watch her from across the room and just the vision of her left me breathless. She was turning into a beautiful young woman. There was nothing left to resemble the scared little girl, who hid with me in the closets of the shithole homes we were placed in.
“Aiden, don’t let your mind go there,” she stated, bringing my thoughts back to the present. Placing her cold hand on my warm cheek. You see, she had the ability to see right through me too.
“Just thinking about your pretty face.”
She rolled her eyes. “Mmm hmm.” Knowing I was lying. “For someone who always wants me to be honest, you should follow your own advice.”
“You want honesty, Bay? That’s what you’re looking for?”
“Always.”
“Well then, look up.”
She did. Realizing there was a wrapped gift dangling from the tree branch we were standing under.
“Oh, come on. This was enough. You didn’t have to get me something too.”
“That’s my gift.”
She cocked her head to the side. “You got yourself a present for me to open?”
I grinned. “Open the gift, Bailey.”
She eyed me skeptically then did just that. Jerking back when she realized what it was. “Aiden, why did you—”
Before the next word left her mouth, I gripped onto the back of her neck and pulled her to me.
They say the smallest decisions can change your life forever.
I would eternally remember this moment for the rest of my days. This was the instant that changed everything between us. Exactly the way I wanted it to.
Standing right then and there, under the mistletoe I wrapped for her.
I rasped, “To kiss you,” against her lips. “I don’t see myself when I’m with you because all I ever see… is you, Bay.”
Not knowing what the fuck I was doing, I kissed her with everything I had inside of me. Making her knees buckle and my heart pound. I sought out her tongue, and she moaned in my mouth as both of my hands found the sides of her face and her hands found my hair, pulling at it almost instantly.
The taste of her.
The warmth, the need, the longing to make her mine.
The sensation of her pouty lips while framing her face I adored so goddamn much. My hands found their way down her body, and I wanted nothing more than to keep going, but not here.
Not like this.
This kiss would have to be enough to hold me over until the time was right to prove she was made just for me and only me.
Our lips devoured each other, both of us making a memory to take with us, not knowing when another chance would come along again where we could feel whole in one another’s love. I wish I could describe the intensity I found myself going through with her in my arms. Only I couldn’t even do it justice. I couldn’t even put it into words what was in my heart.
What had always been there.
What would always be there.
It overpowered me.
She overpowered me.
