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“Because I want you!” she shouts, stopping me in my tracks. “And I want this!” Her hand gestures frantically between us. “I want us! And that terrifies me! Because what if it doesn’t work and Vivi is stuck with two parents who hate each other? I know how that goes and it fucking sucks. We like each other right now. I’m finally happy. It feels safe here. I can’t handle another person who hates me.”
But I can’t handle staying away from her anymore. Can’t stand this distance between us. All it takes is two long steps for me to tower over her. One step for me to push her back against the closed door. And a few inches for me to crush my lips against hers.
“I can. I’ll be too busy loving you.”
Drunk on the sound of laughter flowing from a woman who has spent far too long feeling sad.
“Well, we can do that again too.” She shrugs, looking momentarily innocent. “Sometime. Somewhere.” I grin and quirk my head. “Anytime, anywhere?”
She always has a look of wonder on her face when I do or say something playful. It pisses me off and thrills me all at once. It’s like no one has even attempted to make this woman laugh.
“Care to explain yourself, Silva?” His voice is cool and accusatory. But the one Theo responds with is pure ice, one I’ve never heard him use with anyone. “Not to you I don’t.”
“Because you make me like myself . . . and you’re the only one who ever has.”
“Except me. I’m going to show up for her. Every goddamn time. So Kip, you’re fired. I used to like you, but I no longer respect you. And Geoff, if I could fire you twice, I would. You fucking suck.”
“She’s no one’s leftovers, and I’ve been enjoying her since before you ever saw the divorce papers, buddy.”
“Winter, we are a thing. We are the thing. We are it.”
He finds me. He kisses me. He belongs to me.
“Te vivo, Winter Hamilton.”
Haven’t been able to keep my eyes off that woman from day one, not sure who I was kidding thinking I’d be strong enough to start now.
“You have to freak out with me because I need you. And I love you. I love you so much it paralyzes me to think of carrying on without you. You’re not allowed to shut me out. Because you made me need you, and now you have to deal with the consequences.”
“I love you too. Now would you come in here so we can all be together while you’re being really, really fucking mad at me and I freak out because I love you and want to kill your ex?”
Then his gaze shifts over, to the papers he wasn’t expecting. The ones that detail legal name change from Vivienne Hamilton to Vivienne Loretta Silva. My way of showing Theo that he’ll never be an interloper—he’s stuck with us for life.
It strikes me that perhaps I’m not an easy woman to love, but Theo does it so effortlessly that I feel like I could be. Like I deserve to be.
I kiss him until there’s nothing else but his lips on mine, his hands in my hair, and his ring on my finger.
