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“I don’t care,” he says roughly. A grin tips his lips. “I want you, Ashabelle. I’m not running away from any of it. From any of you.” Her name. Her full name rolling off Nathaniel’s lovely lips is too beautiful for words.
She’s allowed to have happiness, and it looks like Nathaniel. In every universe, it will look like him.
carried you on a beach, saved you from a mountain, stabbed you in the thigh with a needle. You think I’m leaving now?” Oh god. Her heart.
“You had your chance to kill me multiple times, and you failed. It’s a shame.” He scoffs. “I could kill you any time I wanted. Maybe this is all a ruse to get you to let your guard down so I can smother you in your sleep.”
I’m a horror story. I leave caps off the toothpaste too.” He crosses his arms. “Good thing I’m an expert at putting them back on.”
She arches a suspicious brow. “So do I disassociate now or…” “Take the compliment, Bigfoot.”
“He lives, he breathes, he annoys. He is Nathaniel Whitford.” Smirking, Ash shrugs. “He’s obsessed with me, so I kept him.”
It’s not paradise. Not anymore. It’s normal life stuff, and, somewhat shockingly, it’s just as nice. Better even. Because it’s real.
“Did I ever tell you vengeance turns me on?” “Then I better get you home,” he says.
Ash is the kind of woman who makes a man feel like he’s fucked up for taking so long to discover her. She comes with warnings and arrows, and he loves every single one of them.
Amusement courses through him. She sleeps as chaotically as she lives.
“Fascinating.” She taps the acrylic. “You have a tray. I don’t even have a tray. I’m a trayless vagabond.”
“You have made me brave enough to live the life I want. And it’s with you. You are what I want, Ash.”
“I’m messy and I’m mean.” “I love your mean. I know I will always get the right order at a restaurant because of you.”
“I love you. I am utterly and unfathomably in love with you, Ashabelle Keller.”
“I’ll love you enough for the both of us.”
“I love you too, Nathaniel.” The wind’s knocked out of him. He stands there, stunned. Processing the fact that this fierce force of a woman loves him back.
“I love you. Until this world ends and our sun is nothing but a shriveled, dead star, I will love you.”
“I want you to be safe out there, okay? I’m the only one who kills you. Understand?”
When she drives him to the airport sometime later, she waits until the helicopter takes flight, carrying Nathaniel off to the Sophia Marie. She can still feel him. Because he’s in the air. He’s everywhere.
You’re not just a person I hired. You’re family, Ash. You’ve given all of us a light to follow. And you’ll give them one after I’m gone.”
knees give out. “I don’t doubt us.” She exhales raggedly, pulling back to look him in the eye. “I choose you, Nathaniel. In every universe, in every afterlife, I will always choose you. I love you.”
Love isn’t about fixing yourself so that someone loves you. It’s about finding the right person to love you as you are.
Kisses him like there’s no tomorrow, like the universe is smirking down at her in that I told you so way. And she’ll accept it. No more fighting it.
They were married at a boutique Fox Hotel, a small ceremony on the rooftop overlooking LA with their immediate family and friends. Augustus’s garden was the perfect location for their reception. Fairy lights, a string band, and a coconut wedding cake with bride and groom Bigfoot toppers. They didn’t want to wait. They wanted to wed while Augustus was with them.
“Tell me a truth,” she says. His eyes flare as they meet hers. “I love you. Absolutely. Desperately.”
“And I love you too. With every beat of my pulpy heart.” Nathaniel angles in until their brows touch.
