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“Are you a good man?” Luke stared down at me, his dark blue eyes unwavering. “If you don’t know the answer to that already, I guess I’ve got some work to do.”
“If you give me the choice of anything outside these walls or being here with you, I choose you. Every time. Trust me when I say that I would much rather share dinner with you than lose fifty bucks to Emmett at the pool table.”
“I don’t want another woman.” “You don’t?” Crash. My control shattered. I closed the distance between us, holding her gaze, willing my next words to sink in deep. “The only woman I want is you.”
This would be the perfect place to lose yourself in love with a new spouse. There was privacy. Adventure. Just two people alone somewhere in Montana.
“That your beauty is unmatched. Your bravery runs deep. And that you guard your pure heart.”
“A dog for a best friend. To talk about life every day with someone I love. To get my wife pregnant on a rainy day and raise my children the way my parents raised me. To end each day with a smile.”
What do I want from life? I wanted to be the woman Luke got pregnant on a rainy day. I wanted to love the dog who’d be his best friend. I was still choosing other people’s dreams and trying to retrofit them as my own. If I was going to find my own answer, I had to make sense of my life. I had to unwind the mess. Starting with the truth. It was time to tell Luke everything.
I was fighting for this man. For fishing trips. For sexy showers. For the chance to tell him that I loved his pure and gentle heart. For us.
Because if I didn’t have dreams of my own to fight for, then I’d fight for his instead.
“Being unafraid isn’t what makes you brave, beautiful,” Luke said. “Being brave means you look that fear in the face and admit that it scares the shit out of you. But you don’t give up anyway.”
We live in a gray world and you’ve got to pick the shade closest to white. So do what your heart tells you.”
