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“I want you to be Rebel Blue’s lawyer,”
“I trust you, Cam. I don’t have the same knowledge and experience as my dad, and someday, it’s going to fall to me. I want to set Rebel Blue up for success before that happens.”
“When the wedding didn’t work out, I felt like my life had been turned upside down—like all of the pieces of it that I’d picked out so carefully were just shaken up and thrown in the air, left to fall where they may. But now…I think they were all falling together. “I have this beautiful house to raise our daughter in. I have our family. I have a life that’s mine, and I have somebody who…cares about me. Deeply.”
“I didn’t realize how much I needed and wanted something like that until Teddy, and I just…I’m really happy for you if you’ve found it, too. I know I can be a bit of an ass, but I guess what I’m saying is that you have my approval—even though you don’t need it. I just know how much it meant to me when you gave me yours.”
“Dusty Tucker is a good man,”
“And you’re one of the best people I’ve ever known. It sounds silly now, but I’m grateful for the night that brought us together because getting to spend my life parenting Riley alongside you and Teddy…and Dusty…is going to be one of my greatest accomplishments.”
“I love you. You’re like another sister to me. When everything happened on your wedding day, I was sad for you, but I also kind of felt…relieved. Like I didn’t have to pretend that I was okay with you settling for less than you deserved anymore.”
“But the thought of you and Dusty finally finding your way back to each other after all this time and letting this get in the way of that breaks my heart in two.
“I’m sorry I didn’t tell you about the house. I know I should’ve. I know it was crazy for me to buy it five years ago with you in mind. I know the fact that I’ve been in love with you since I was seventeen is kind of ridiculous, and I know you’re mad at me, and you have every right to be. But, god, you are everything to me. You always have been, you always will be.
“I don’t even remember what my life was like before you were in it—I don’t even think I want to. It killed me when you left, but I don’t know, I just felt like it was the right thing to let you go, but I never let go of hope—hope that we’d find our way back to each other after it all and hope that I’d have the opportunity to never let you go. I feel like I’ve spent fifteen years preparing for this moment, when I could tell you that, without a doubt, I want to be with you forever. I want to wake up with you every day. And that means that I also want to be part of Riley’s life.
“I’ve always wanted everything with you, and I’m sorry that I got so many steps ahead, but I promise, I’ll give you as much time as you need. The house is yours. No strings. I’ll move out of here if you want me to. I want to do this on your terms, Cam.”
“This note says you love me,”
“I do love you,”
“I love you madly and deeply. I love you in ways that people don’t believe exist in real life. I love you for who you’ve been and who you are and who you’re going to be, Ash.”
Cam and I got married at the courthouse last week—just the two of us and Riley.
I’d been waiting to marry her for fifteen years, so I said hell yeah. Every part of it was simple and intimate and perfect.
“I’ll love you until we’re dust.” “Until we’re dust,”
“And even after.”
