Promise Me This (Wilder Family, #3)

by Karla Sorensen

“No matter how hard I tried not to, I fell in love with my best friend, and nothing has ever scared me more than this.”

“You look at me like I’m your whole world,” I admitted quietly. “Like it almost hurts to feel something this big for someone and not know if it’s just you.” I sucked in a fortifying breath, my pulse spreading in a giant throbbing beat over my skin. “It’s probably the same way I look at you.”

He was mine. And I was his. Maybe I always had been, and we were just waiting for the perfect time. Or, I had to admit to myself, maybe there wasn’t such a thing as a perfect time for anything. This story always ended with us together, no matter when it happened.

“But I love you. I love you. I love you.”

“You are the love of my life, Ian Wilder,” I said, tears filling my eyes. “And there is nothing to be scared of. Not when we’re together.” The first tear fell as I kissed him sweetly. He pulled back, his own eyes glossy too. With the pad of his thumb, he brushed the tear away. “My heart has been yours since we were five years old, and I don’t ever want it back.”

“You are it, Harlow, for the rest of my life. I’ll want to marry you soon. Fuck dating, we’ve known each other way too long to deal with that bullshit. I want everything. You, me, Sage, whatever little smart-ass kids come after. Everything.”