False Start (Red Zone Rivals, #5)

by Kandi Steiner

“But there’s so much more I still want to know about you,” Kyle said, his eyes finding mine. “And I know that will never not be true. There is nothing in this world I love to discover more than you. Every day I spend by your side, I peel back another layer. I find something new to love. I find something new to cherish in the woman I never deserved, but will spend the rest of my life trying to be worthy of.”

“Madelyn, you have brought out the best in me,” he said, and he choked a bit on those words, clearing his throat as I willed my own emotions to stay checked. “I didn’t have an example of a father growing up — not one I would ever want to emulate, anyway. But over the past year, through being a father, I have learned more about love, kindness, compassion and understanding than ever before. And because of that, I know you really are an angel on earth. Because no one is as kind, compassionate, and understanding as you are.

“You light me up with the fire to live the life I was always too afraid to live before. You make me feel brave. You make me feel limitless. And truthfully, I know there’s nothing in this world that you and I could ever face that would hold us down. I know we can survive and thrive through any test.

“From this moment and until my last breath, I vow to love you, Madelyn James soon-to-be-Robbins.” He smiled at that, squeezing my hand as the crowd sniffed and chuckled. “I vow to be the husband you deserve, the father I never had, and the friend you’ve always been to me. Because though our love is powerful and unending, it’s our f...

“I love you. And I will keep loving you until I am taken from this Earth, and long after I am gone, too. Always. That’s how long you have me. Forever. That’s how long I want you. Infinite, Madelyn — that’s what we are.”

I had Kyle Robbins, and he had me.