Keeping My Girl (Keeping What's Mine, #2)

by Angela Snyder

I don’t care if she doesn’t remember me. I don’t care if she even fucking hates me for a while. I will win her trust back no matter what it takes. I still love her. I never stopped loving her. And I’m not giving up on her.

“Go to sleep, cuore mio. I’ll be here to slay all the monsters that try to get into your dreams,” I promise her.

My term of endearment has her cheeks flushing with a pink blush, driving me crazy. Fuck, I love that she’s shy with me sometimes.

My eyes slowly open, and the moment I see Nico on his knees beside me, I suddenly crawl to him and thrust myself into his open arms. He holds me tightly, rubbing his hand up and down my back while whispering soothing things into my ear. “Don’t let me go,” I whisper to him frantically, my entire body shaking with fear. “Never,” he promises. And that one word makes me feel infinitely better all at once. It makes me finally feel safe.

She ran out of my room like her ass was on fire,

“You’re the only person I’ve ever kissed. I refused to kiss anyone else. I wanted that to be a piece of me that no one else could ever have. I wanted you to own that part of me.”

“That’s my girl,” Nico murmurs against my thigh before placing a kiss on my skin.

“I want you with every single fiber of my being. I want you more than I want to fucking breathe most days. I want to be with you more than I’ve ever wanted anything else in this entire world!” he shouts, exasperated.

We make love for the rest of the night. And when I wake up the next morning, I’m sore in all the right places and I have a permanent smile on my face.

“I love you, too. I’ve always loved you, Lina, even from the first time I laid eyes on you. Probably before I even knew what love was. I have loved you for every second, every minute, every hour for the past ten goddamn years.”

“I’m never letting you go,” he utters before sealing his vow with a kiss.