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“So, you’re telling me you’re not going to do anything unless I’m on board with it?”
“I guess that’s what I’m saying,” I said with a laugh.
“And you are ready to look after a kid and to get married and—”
“I don’t know if I’m ready,” I said. “But sometimes in life, you don’t wait for when you’re ready. You just wait for the right time and the right person. And you’re the right person, Arya. You’re my person, and I’m not going to let you go. I’m not going to let my hard head get in the way of true love.”
Chapter One Hundred Fourteen
Arya
“So, shall we tell Eloise in the morning?” Chet whispered into my ear as we lay back in his bed.
I turned to look at him. “Tell her what?”
“About us,” he said quietly, his hand moving over to my breast and squeezing gently.
“I don’t know.” I shook my head. “I don’t want…” I paused, wondering how to word my sentence delicately.
“You don’t want what?” He frowned as he turned onto his side and gave me all of his attention.
“I just don’t want her to get her hopes up about something and then…”
“And then what?” He was starting to sound annoyed.
“And then it doesn’t work out between us.”
“What?” He rolled over on top of me, and I blinked up at him.
“Hey, you’re heavy, you know!”
“Really?” He rested his arms on the bed and shifted his weight so that he was leaning on his elbows. I could feel him on top of me still, but he wasn’t as heavy. His eyes looked down into mine sternly. “Are you seriously worried that we’re not going to make it, Arya?”
“Chet, we haven’t even been on a date. I don’t know what’s going to happen. Life is—” He kissed me then pulled away. “I didn’t finish my sentence.”
“Yeah, because I didn’t need you to finish your sentence. I need some positivity from you.”
“I am being positive, but I also have to be realistic. That’s what happens when you have kids. I don’t want to get her hopes up that she’s going to have this daddy and uncles and aunties and grandma, and then it doesn’t work out between us and it’s just me and her again.”
“It’s never going to be just you and her. I’m in her life forever. I mean,” he touched the side of my face, “as long as you’ll have me, of course.”
“You know I care about you a lot, Chet.”
“You just care about me? I thought you loved me?” He grinned as he positioned himself over me and then leaned down and took my breasts in his mouth.
“You know I—” I cried out as his teeth sunk into my nipple. “Ow, what’d you do that for?”
“I wanted to tease you, my dear.”
“Well, that hurt!”
“I’m sorry,” he said. “Let me kiss it better.” He sucked on it gently, and I licked my lips.
“You’re so bad,” I whispered. I ran my hands up his shoulders then pulled him to me for a kiss. “I love you, Chet.”
“And I love you, Arya. You are absolutely everything to me.”
“Am I, though? Am I really?”
