In a Rush (Friendship, Rhode Island #2)

by Kate Canterbary

“You can.” “What?” I turned the water glass, letting the condensation slick my palms. “What do you mean?” “Stop looking. Marry me.”

“I think marrying my best friend—the girl from back home, the one the media called my high school sweetheart in all of the Heisman packages because there are so damn many photos of us together after my games, the one who waited all this time for me to find my way back to her—will do the fucking trick.”

“Ryan Ralston has a heart,” he said. “I haven’t seen it until now because you left it with her.”

So, when I found myself staring into the eyes of the only woman I’d ever loved, I knew it wouldn’t feel like work at all.

Maybe this plan—this marriage—wasn’t going to end in the ruin I’d imagined after all.

“I think you’re a little unhinged with all this,” I said. “Unhinged is having a vibrator confiscated by the air marshals.”

all the ways I’d ever wanted her to belong to me—and