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Slowly, I turn around. My gaze finds a pair of wide hazel eyes, bouncing nervously around my family. When they land on me, a heartbreaking smile blooms, spreading like wildfire across the most handsome face I’ve ever held between these two hands. “Hi, honey,”
OMFG.
“Jaxon,” she whispers, dashing toward me. I blink up at her as she takes my hand in hers. “Who are you?”
Oh fuck no
Arrogant blue eyes come to mine, and a pigheaded, shit-eating smirk pulls in a set of dimples in his fair, freckled cheeks. “Hi, angel,” my ex-fiancé murmurs.
Oh fuck no.
“Lenny Bean, are you—” “Ah-ah.” Jaxon holds up a hand. “She said everything she wanted to say to you. You’re talking to me now.”
YUHHHH EAT HIM UP
She’s busy, and also, she’s my breakfast.” Carter gasps. “How dare you!” He shoves the plates into my hands and dashes to the doorway, poking his head out. “Holly Beckett is an angel!” “Holly Beckett is my angel!” Axel yells back.
“I always wanted to be bilingual,” Emmett murmurs. “Never dreamed the second language I’d learn would be Carter with his mouth full.” Adam sighs. “We’re all fluent in it.”
At this point me too
“We’re not going anywhere, Jaxon,” Carter says. “All of us could be traded. We could be spread out across North America, and we are always going to come back to each other, because we’re family. Me, Garrett, Adam, Emmett. And you. You are part of this family.
“Friends,” I answer quietly. “Family. Home. Lennon.” I look down, knees bouncing as I whisper the thing I’ve wanted more than anything my entire life. “Love.” Garrett grins. “Yeah, you do. So go take it.”
“You want me to beg you to stay? To tell you how badly I wanna be the one who reminds you how much Advil to take, massages your back when you’ve got your period? The one who makes a detailed instruction manual for your favorite lattes, but makes them for you anyway when I wake up first? The one who puts your favorite flowers on the kitchen counter every week just to see you smile, who does your hair routine when you’ve had a shitty day and aren’t up for it? You want me to tell you how I wanna be the one sitting next to you on the couch while you show off all the pictures you took that day,
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I’m in tears.
“Here it is, honey. I love you. I am so goddamn, mind-blowingly in love with you, and the thought of losing you is killing me. I don’t want you to go. This place only feels like a home when you’re here.” I whisper my final plea. “Please, honey. Please stay.”
And then she’s dashing across the kitchen, crashing into me at full speed. Her arms around my neck, my hands on her ass as I hoist her up to me. I brush her curls from her soaked face. “What? What did you just say?” “I love you,”
