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Alex would be my partner because he’d recently become the owner of the architectural firm that was intended to merge with mine. My partner. God help me.
All of the money she had to her name, down to every last penny of her father’s inheritance, she invested into her father’s company.
While they pillaged, she was donating her paychecks, life savings, and selling off stocks so they wouldn’t lose their homes or cars.”
I loved the idea of her being mine to protect from any shady bastard who would dare to hurt this woman in any way.
After all the goddamn, mother fucking hard work I’ve done to take my father’s seat and all the personal fucking sacrifices I’ve made for their families, their betrayal cuts deeper than ever.”
She was a strong woman with a huge heart, and that heart had cost her fucking everything.
I had no business trying to be happy or make anyone else happy.
I loved holding her, smelling her, and feeling her trust me enough to cling to my back while she let out the last of her shitty week.
Me, of all the goddamn people, was the victim of that chubby little love cherub,
“You’re coming with me to my beach house where you’re going to cough up the last of your fake cold and all the details of what the fuck is going on with you financially.”
I had to accept that I loved a woman with fire in her spirit.
“I should probably warn you that this smile of yours,” he touched my cheek, igniting sparks beneath his fingers, “will either be the death of me or put you in the backseat of a car delivering our child if you’re not careful.”
“I’m in love with you, Bree,” he softly said and laid his head against my chest. “I didn’t fully realize that until now.”
“I think I’m in love with you too,”
You are loved and supported, and you don’t have to go it alone. Tough times are why we have good friends, good sex, and hard liquor,”
“Well, slap the pig, and spit in the fire. Alex is in love,” Jim repeated a saying we’d heard some drunk cowboys use at a bar.
I was honored to be related to one of the first women Marine fighter pilots and the only woman fighter pilot from this base.
I knew now that Breanne Stone was mine to love, care for, and adore until she either pushed me away or I left this life.
Family members don’t take the side of the man who cheated on you,
“Paul O’Connor is a dangerous and extremely vile human being,”
“Paul blamed Alex for the death of Albert, but we knew Alex did not kill his brother,”
“Alex was made to believe by an abuser that he was a monster. He ruined the family, and it was all his fault. In our brains,” she looked at us, “there’s a defense mechanism that will bury a traumatic situation that is too hard for us to process. It’s why Alex is struggling to remember any of it. His terrors seem to be memories to him, but they’re based on what his father has told him about what happened with his brother. I don’t believe for a second Alex had anything to do with
He’ll never find peace or happiness unless he knows what happened beyond what his wretched father led him to believe. His reality is based on a lie, rooted in him being worthless and unworthy of love.”
The love I felt for Albert was overwhelming. I hadn’t felt that type of love since I’d lost my brother, but I felt that with Breanne.
“Love you again?
I never stopped, Bree, even though I thought I did at the time, I suppose.”
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I wanted was to beg you to forgive me and allow me a chance to prove I can never love anyone other than you. I love you, Breanne Stone. There’s no doubt in my heart about that now.”
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I watched in shock as Alex knelt and opened the box, and that’s when Collin sang loudly, performing the part of the song where Celine Dion sings her heart out. Then I glanced down and watched Alex’s eyes close and his lips tighten in humor. It was all priceless, and I couldn’t help but join everyone in laughter.
“Being here, on your birthday, was just me, trying to bring it back full-circle to the day I unknowingly fell in love with you.”
“Baby, I love you. We’re going to have a massive-ass wedding, and I even had a lovely conversation with your Aunt Blaire about it.”
I’m so proud of you and more in love with you now than ever.”
