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can’t speak. I’m too distracted by her soft Barbie blonde hair. Overwhelmed by how much I’ve missed her. Humbled by how unbelievably screwed I am.
And I say the only thing that makes sense in my mind at that very moment. “Anything for you, My Queen.”
He’d get up for water and come back, but I’d be so engrossed in my book that I wouldn’t realize he was sitting next to me, reading along, until he suddenly said, “Wait, don’t turn the page yet,” only to follow a minute later with, “Okay, I’m ready.”
It makes Ruby laugh, which I can tell was the goal. She’s always a little off-kilter when Bennett isn’t here. Though, in her defense, he’s the same way when she’s not around.
I won’t be your backup plan. Me: You could never be a backup plan.
“I would never hurt you.”
“I said that a queen deserves respect.” He leans closer, raspy breath tickling my ear as he finishes, “And respect you will receive, Your
Majesty.”
“Might be easier to forgive you if you got on your knees.” His eyebrows rise. I thought he’d laugh with me, but he doesn’t. “Quinn,” he says, his tone raspy and low, “if you want me on my knees, I can get on my knees.”
“Yeah,” he says with a slow nod. “You make me panic. How are you surprised? I’m a mess for you.”
“I would do anything for you, if you’d let me.”
“I would wait forever for you,” he
says.
“But in a way where she gives me an extra push that nobody else gives me, you know?”
haunted by the hope that she and Bennett would have been the
ones engaged instead of him and Jolene.
“I’d bet on you,” she says.
That he is everything I thought he’d be and more. “You are the best annoyance,” I say. He chuckles, low and husky and warm. “And you are my favorite misery.”
“He’s a mess for you, you know,” Lorelei says. “A garbage bin of love.” “A trash bag full of smiles.” “A dumpster fire of feelings.”
“Of course I want you. It’s always been you.”
“Quinn,” I say, “you will always be my queen. And don’t ever think you’re anything less.”
