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His nostrils flare, his full, pretty lips thinning.
God, he’s beautiful.
“It would change nothing,” I say simply.
He blinks.
“I told her as much. If anyone has a problem with it, then fuck them. You’re mine, sweetheart, and if it means raising Hell to keep what’s mine, then Hell on Earth it’ll be.”
“Abby,” he mouths, her name slipping out soundlessly.
A brow climbs up toward my hairline. “Who said I can’t fight to keep you both? As far as I’m concerned, there is no choice here. And I told Mel as much. I will do whatever it fucking takes to keep you both. Because you’rebothmy entire world. And no one’s getting in the way of that.”
His gaze sears into mine, his chin quivering against my fingers.
“Without you, I am a lesser man. Barely even human. I’d be the same if I lost her. I just…” I frown. “I hope you’re okay with that. With sharing this space in my heart.”
Skyler wets his lips, nodding. “You’re a package deal. I’ve known that from the start.”
Eyes burning, I nod.
“If anything…,” he says, his voice shaking. He pauses to gulp, his cheeks so red, I feel the warmth in my fingertips. A hand cups up, fingers encircling my wrist, like he’s ensuring I’m not going anywhere.
I shake my head, not understanding what’s got him so nervous all of a sudden. “Sky—”
“I love you.”
I freeze. My eyes widen.
His widen too, and his lips fumble for a second, like he can’t be certain he said those three words.
With the hand not anchored to his face, I press it over his chest. “Breathe.”
And he does.
And then he’s telling me, “I wouldn’t love you as much, I don’t think, if you didn’t love her as much as you do.”
Emotion swells my throat, and I nod, remembering that time he almost slipped on the beach when he said something similar.
“I love you, Nolan,” he says quietly, with all the graveness in the world, like it’s something terminal.
And it is, isn’t it?
A love like ours.
It’s the kind you die for. The kind you diewith.The kind that…Well, hell, makes me believe there’s a place for us in the afterlife, a place where we can still be together, for all of eternity.
Whether it’s in the heavens, or the night sky, or deep, deep in the ocean where no one’s ever been…
It doesn’t matter where, so long as he never leaves my side.
“Well, that’s a relief,” I say, smiling. “Seeing as you’re moving in with me and all.”
He huffs, and gives me a shove, ducking his bashful gaze.
Grabbing him, I pull him into a fierce hug.
“Do you think she’ll like me? Abby, I mean?” he whispers into my neck.
