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“I have lots of boyfriends.” His head snaps up, eyebrows slashing together. Laughing at his expression, I clarify. “Book boyfriends, that is.” I gesture to the paperback, now safely tucked away in my bag. “Much more reliable than real-life boyfriends. They’re there when I need them and go away when I don’t.”
“You. I’m here for you. I followed you.” His fingers tighten around mine. More softly, he says, “I can’t keep my eyes off you. That’s why I’m here. I want a chance, Tiffy. Give it to me.”
“Tiffany, dear, you and your mother are my family now,” Mr. Chen tells me. “This is what family does. We take care of each other.”
“I’m glad you knocked on my door. You belong over here.” Minutes later, I’m almost asleep, in that twilight on the threshold to oblivion, when I hear him whisper, “You belong with me.”
“I like you all ways, happy and sad. I like all the Tiffany’s past, present, and future. I’ll take them all.”
“I haven’t had a lot of things I could call mine. Medicine was my parents’ and my brother’s. Baseball, maybe, but I lost that. But you, you’re mine, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to lose you. Not today. Not to that guy.” He points to Rafe on the ground. “I will fight anything, or anyone, that comes between us. Nothing could keep me away from you. Nothing.”
“I love you, Tiffy. I think I’ve loved you from the moment I first saw you glaring at me in that auditorium. Nothing can change that.”
