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“Take your hand away.” “I’m too loud.” “I don’t give a fuck. This is my house. We aren’t hiding shit here. Scream all you want. I want to hear what I’m doing to you.”
“You’re everything to me, Hallie. I’ve been addicted to you since I was a kid, and clearly nothing has changed. I don’t want to be without you again.”
I spill into her while chanting her name like a fucking prayer against her lips. Which is fitting, because she feels like my answered prayer. And as we come down together, I make sure to tell her that.
“So honest today.” “Yeah, well I just got laid for the first time in six years, Hal. I’ll tell you anything you want to know as a thank you for fucking me.”
“What are you doing?” I ask. “Dancing with you.” “Why?” “Because I want to.”
“Are we doing this? You and me. Because I’m all in.”
“I’m all in too. It’s you and me.”
“I want to start our lives now,”
“I want to buy us a house. One that’s all ours. I want you to be at every one of my home games.
I don’t want to be away from you anymore.” “And if I’m not ready to go with you now?” “Then I’ll still buy you a house and it’ll be waiting for you.”
“But what do you want?”
“You,”
“I just wan...
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sometimes I get nervous that because I’m part of your old life, I won’t fit into the new.”
“But you’re not just a part of my life. You’re the center of it. So, if something isn’t fitting around us, that piece needs to change, not you.”
“But in case it needs to be said out loud… Yes, Hallie Hart, you are my girlfriend. Though, you should know, there’s a good chance I’ll be changing both that title and that last name one day.”
“That boy is so in love with you,”
She’s a fucking stunner in red. Stunner in every color under the sun, if we’re being honest.
“Stop trying to be cute right now.” “I’m not trying. It just comes naturally to me.”
“I haven’t taken off my wedding ring in three years, you caveman. Still your wife. Still fully obsessed with you.”
“Well yeah, he’s Ryan fucking Shay.” Rio turns to him. “Don’t worry, honey. Cruz Wilder will never be you.”
“Fanboy Ryan Shay might be my new favorite.”
I decided it was time to change it to my actual favorite day.”
He’s been wearing my birthdate on his jersey for six years and I had no idea.
Over my shoulder, I watch his parents’ bedroom slowly creak open, but the woman who exits isn’t Mrs. DeLuca. “Mom?”
Holy fuck
“I love you, Hallie Hart. Spoken or unspoken, I’ve always loved you.”
“Rio, playing for Boston is your childhood dream.”
“You’re my childhood dream.”
“Playing for Chicago feels like I’m playing for my hometown because it is my home now. You’re my home. Being loved by you for the rest of my life is the only dream of mine that’s never wavered.
“The house has always been yours, Hallie. Ours. It was just waiting for you to come make it a home.”
Then it’s the ten of us. How it was always supposed to be.
“Rio,”
“Ryan has something he wants to tell you.”
“I just wanted you to know that…”
“I love you, man.”
I’ll speak for all ten of us when I say, there’s nowhere else we’d rather be.
