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“I may miss a lot of things, but one of those will never be how fucking gorgeous you are. Doesn’t matter if you’re covered in grease or flour or have dark circles you’re drowning in. None of it will take away an ounce of your beauty.”
Reaper will flatten me the next time we’re on the ice if I let his girl cover my cupcakes.” His girl? The words sliced through me with a mix of craving and pain. Because somewhere along the line, I’d started to want that. It didn’t matter how reckless or dangerous it was. I wanted to know what it felt like to belong to Cope, not as a possession but as the person he wanted with every fiber of his being.
“Maybe because you two have been attached at the hip for almost a month now, and he looks at you like you’re the sun, moon, and stars all wrapped into one.”
Thieves was probably the most accurate term Thea could’ve picked. Because Cope was a damn thief. Without me realizing it and without my permission, he’d stolen my heart.
“I care about her.” That wasn’t even remotely close enough to the truth. It was so much more than care. But saying that out loud was ridiculous. I’d only known the woman for a month. Yet she was turning my world upside down in the best ways imaginable. And I’d do whatever it took to protect her.
Sutton would always be worth it. No matter the risk.
“Life isn’t perfect. It’s not always sunshine and rainbows. It’s about finding people who will weather the storm with you. Who will find ways to dance in the rain.”
“Not enough!” Luca wailed. “I don’t want him to be my dad! I want Cope to be my dad!” I stilled, pain and panic searing through me. My gaze collided with Cope’s, and I saw agony and longing in his eyes. Cope leaned in, rubbing Luca’s back. “It would be the biggest honor of my life if I got to be a dad to someone who’s as amazing as you are,” Cope croaked.
I wanted Sutton and Luca here with me. Forever.
Sutton’s eyes glistened. “What you just gave Luca, it made me realize that you’ve given us both the gift of belonging. A family.”
I’d never had a woman affect me like this. It was so much more than simple attraction. It was as if she held my soul hostage. But I didn’t give a damn. I’d be her willing prisoner for the rest of my days.
Understood that he was mine as much as I was his. That we belonged to each other. That we gave one another a home when we’d been missing exactly that.
Cope’s forehead dropped to mine, our breaths mingling as we struggled to get enough air. “I love you. With everything in me. All I am is yours. Brokenness and all.”
But something about seeing Holland had something lighting deep inside me: the need to see that name changed to Colson on the jerseys. Because I wanted Sutton and Luca to have my last name. To feel every bit a part of my family as possible.
I turned back to Angie. “Sutton is my partner. I love her, and I’ll do whatever it takes to get these vultures to leave her alone. Right now, that means staying out of the limelight.”
And then I whispered against her skin, “I love you. Now. Tomorrow. Twenty years from now. Fifty. It’s never going to end.”
“Now, can you be my dad?” a little voice cut in. Sutton pulled back, her face wet. She glanced back at me, giving me the ultimate gift, the chance to give this to the kid who’d stolen my heart right along with her. And after everything he’d been through, being his dad would be that much more precious a role. “Never going to have a better job than being your dad,” I told Luca.
