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The lyrics to my song.
The foam to my latte.
She’s my everything.
“Good news is you won’t need to try to steal my secrets this time.”
We both laugh and she turns in my arms.
“No, I won’t, because you ended up stealing my heart.”
Epilogue
February
“I’m here,” I say as I enter the new coffee shop.
“This place is almost ready,” Harrison says, hanging up the last of the artwork I snagged from a local gallery on the wall. “What do you think?” he asks as he steps back to take a look at his handiwork.
“It’s perfect.” And it really is. It’s everything I ever wanted in a coffee shop.
The walls are decorated with edgy artwork from a local artist, and the place screams originality. There’s a stage in the back of the shop with a few brown and pink couches lined around the space. It’s better than anything I ever could have imagined.
The shop has merged both our styles completely and we decided to call it Pour Some Sugar On Me Coffee and Music Shop.
We open this weekend and I’m already a nervous wreck.
Magnolia Ridge is a dream come true, and I’m already excited about the local community. Everyone we’ve met so far has been super nice. It helps that Paxton Atwood and his brothers are local, which we’re thinking about offering beer later down the road at night when the local bands play.
It’ll really be something.
“Itisperfect, right?” Harrison asks, wrapping his arm around my shoulders.
There’s a knock on the glass and Harrison smiles wide when he spots Paxton and his brother Shepherd at the door.
Together, we walk over and let them inside.
“Place looks great,” Shepherd says, running a hand over his beard. He’s tall with dark brown eyes that appear like they can read your mind when they stare at you for too long. He’s really good-looking, obviously not as hot as Harrison, but all the Atwood brothers are nice to look at. “Atta Boy Brewery will love to have our beer here,” he says.
“Yeah for sure, and once it’s up and running, it’ll really be a great hang out spot,” Harrison says with a huge sense of pride.
I feel the same pride swimming through my veins.
“I think Hartford’s going to love it here,” Paxton says. “She’s got a real love for coffee.”
I smile. “She sounds perfect to me. I’m sure we’ll be the best of friends. You sure talk about her a lot, are you sure she’s not your girlfriend?”
Paxton’s cheeks turn bright red. “No. No. Just friends.”
“I can’t wait to meet her.” I really can’t. Now that Lennon lives in the next town over, I’ll need to make some new friends here as well. However, I don’t think anyone will ever replace my love for Lennon. I still plan on speaking with her daily. As well as January.
“If he were smart, he’d ask her out,” Harrison adds. He knocks into Paxton, making Paxton wobble on his feet.
“No, it’s really not like that at all.”
“Yeah, she’s way too good for Paxton here,” Shepherd says, just like an older brother would. I can tell the two of them are very close because, for the next few minutes, they crack jokes and poke fun at one another.
“What about you and that girl you took to that Christmas party? When do you plan on making that a thing?” Paxton asks his brother. “She was obviously way too good for you.”
