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“Now, one more thing. Don’t let this little prick touch you ever again. I see you’re a nice girl, Jesse, but sometimes, you have to be mean. Especially, if you are protecting what’s yours. Got it?”
Priests drop to their knees to pray when they see me, certain I’m a sign of the beginning of the end.
Quietly, in the middle of nature I float, not fall, in love with the kindest, strongest creature I’ve ever met. Jesse Miller came into my life, taking nothing from me, asking for naught but in this moment she has given me everything.”
“You were made for me, Jesse. The only woman in the world who is worthy of standing by my side. I knew it the minute you fell out of Dan’s window.” I turn my head away. “I didn’t fall. I climbed out gracefully.” “Whatever helps you sleep at night.”
“When you smile, it breaks through all this.” He motions over his dark ink. “It’s like feeling the warm summer sun after a long dark winter.”
“We wait not because something magical will happen when you turn eighteen. We wait because it’s the right thing to do. You deserve to be waited for…. no one else has done that for you, Jesse. I’m not just going to take from you. I’m going to woo you Jesse Miller.” Should I laugh or should I cry? His words hit me hard. He’s right. Everyone has just taken what they want from me. No one has worked for it, earned it. “Okay, scary tattoo man, let’s see what you got in the wooing department.”
“I just don’t want Bill to chase you off.” There’s that damn eyebrow. “Do you really think I’m a guy who gets chased off?” I shake my head no, giggling. “I’m the chaser, you’d be wise not to forget that.”
