With You Forever (Bergman Brothers, #4)

by Chloe Liese

I’ve started to wonder if Axel isn’t so much surly as he is slow to warm up. And I’ve wondered if once he warms up to you, it freaks him out a little. Because the transformation from the silent giant of my casual acquaintance to the considerate, caring guy I married and bonded with over a stoned officiant and a breathtaking sunset and a fear of needles, back to the quiet serious man driving me home, are night and day…and night. It’s like as soon as he started to open up to me, he snapped shut. He’s been unreachable the past two weeks. I expected it. I needed the distance, too. I had no business indulging my lusty thoughts about him and coming damn close to acting on them. And so I shouldn’t be so stung that he’s withdrawing again. But I’m such a sucker for the Axel that held my hand and kept me plied with gluten-free pretzels. Who read historical romance with a range of voices that made me laugh so hard, we got a look from the nurses’ station that made us apologize in unison and gave me that us-against-the-world feeling, like on our wedding day. It makes me wonder what it might take simply to be his friend. Just a friend, of course.