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“Don’t worry, princess. My ghost sauce doesn’t stick to your skin. It passes right through and disappears.”
“Oh yeah?” I flicked my index finger into my own sauce. A splatter of red went right through Jamie and landed on the wall behind us. “Huh. So that tests my theory on that then.”
We both started laughing.
“Two can play at this game.” He flicked his own sauce back at me. I mirrored him until we were in a battle. Flinging sauce at each other with our fingers, a mixture of red energy and actual red sauce flying everywhere. I giggled, feeling the muscles in my stomach contracting. His smile stretched across his face as he took an entire chunk of tomato and flung it at me.
The tomato landed on top of my nose before fading away, tickling my skin.
“Aww, what’s wrong?” I asked. “Can’t get me?”
“We’ll see about that.”
He dumped his entire bowl of pasta over my head. A shiver ran down me as little tingles of energy crept through my body before the faux sauce fizzled into nothing.
My mouth widened, my smile so wide my cheeks burned. As I turned back to face the bed post, I snorted so loud I swear red sauce came out of my nose.
“Look at the wall behind us!” I cried.
My sauce—everything I had flung toward Jamie—had painted the wall a yellowy-red color. Internal laughter bubbled inside my gut, crawling up my body and bursting out until I was goddamn crying from a hysterical fit. I then dug my hand into my bowl, scooped up a large chunk of sauce, and flung it toward Jamie.
More red splattered against the wall.
I sunk into his embrace, still cracking up, as he dug his own hand into the faux sauce and smushed it into my face. I could feel his body shaking from his own laughter, a fit of snorting and crying and guffawing I’d never seen from him before.
I dug my hand into my bowl once more and went to do the same thing to him, but as I neared his face, he jutted forward and kissed me on the lips.
I froze, the chunk of tomato sauce sitting in my opened palm.
His lips pressed against mine once more, as he circled his arms around me and dipped me back against the bed. My heart stopped.
“God, I love you,” he whispered. Bright eyes watching me, his arms anchoring my body over the mattress. “I love you more than I even love myself.”
Chapter Forty-Five
I Love You
I love you.
The words that probably would have set everything in motion for a much happier future.
I love you.
The words that could have saved everything.
I love you.
The words that had arrived too late to save anything at all.
Chapter Forty-Six
Love
“I love you.”
Jamie’s words hung in the air as he held me.
For one moment.
