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because he’s the only person to ever break my heart. My ex-teammate. My first love. Hayden Cassidy.
We went from being inseparable to becoming strangers, and sometimes you don’t truly know the significance of that loss until they’re standing right in front of you again.
Because how can I say, “Please meet me for coffee,” without sounding like I’m desperate? I mean, I am desperate, but he doesn’t need to know that.
“You called, so I came.”
Maybe before, it was the right person but the wrong time. But now… Maybe this time, it’ll be right, and we’ll have the kind of love story that’s in the books I read to my kids at night.
“And what about you?” I find myself asking. “What about me?” “Will I make you proud?” His eyes shine with so much adoration my breath hitches. “You’ve always made me proud, Jackson. You make me proud by simply being you.”
It’s always been you, Jax.”
“I swear to you, I’ll be loving you every day for the rest of my life.”
“But most of all, I’d like to spend every day with you. I want to spend the rest of my life waking up next to you and falling asleep in your arms. I’d like to spend Christmas mornings with you, watching the kids open their gifts with so much excitement they don’t know what to open first. I’d like lazy Sundays with you, making pancakes and stealing kisses whenever the kids aren’t looking. I’d like to grow old with you—well, older, because fuck, Jax, that day we went to the market made me feel about one hundred and three.”
“I hope I’m not too late, Jax. I hope that you can forgive me for the pain I put you through, both tonight and all those years ago. I hope that you’ll let me make it up to you by loving you every day for the rest of my life. I love you, Jackson Wilde. I love you so fucking much,”
