Identity

by Nora Roberts

He paid in cash, leaving a very generous tip.

Smash

And the next morning she found the tires slashed on Nina’s car.

This girl canNOT catch a break

“If it tastes horrible? Lie.”

Gavin Rozwell, a natural-born psychopath, hit the road.

the oldest of the siblings, third-generation Miles.”

I already know I'm gonna love him

“Miles. That’s how we run here.”

So you’ve got distant Jameson cousins scattered around.

Ok this ruins it

Miles struck her as tougher yet, but she’d find a way.

She gave herself a mental I-worked-out pat on the back

Real

The gym didn’t make Morgan happy, but she stuck with it.

Just like me fr

But if he did consider it a weird sort of date, she found she didn’t mind.

She sat on the side of the bed, trying to ignore that flutter, that telltale flutter. And wished so much she had Nina to talk her through it.

He couldn’t claim he found it easy, but he let her take the lead. This time.

SCREAMING

“Well.” Olivia sipped at her tea. “Those must’ve been some cookies.”

The invisible suit, she thought. He put on the invisible suit. For me.

Some bumfuck airport in bumfuck Nebraska.

Ok no need to be rude

They found the car in long-term parking at the airport in Omaha, Nebraska.

Uhhhhhhhhhhh

and on one of her broken sighs came his name.

I’m here, and have been long before, will be long after.

That might’ve been the moment, Miles would think later, just the moment when he started to slip.

Her smile could’ve lit the world.

“Miles.” She nuzzled at the side of his neck, sparked little fires in his blood. “You’re so good to me.” He intended to be.

see it, and that’s plenty. You want the ring.”

“I’m still not done.” He took out the ring in his pocket. “We’ll get married.”

The kiss warmed everything in her, lit up everything inside her. She had love, and the promise to make a life with love.

A Deal’s a Deal.

He hummed a little tune as he plugged in Morgan’s address on the GPS. Thirty-two minutes sounded just fine.

Im so scared rn

Miles was out of his house and in his car within thirty seconds.

I knew you were coming when you said good night. You never text good night.” “It’s not a real good one when you’re somewhere else.”

But let’s watch the day come before we go in. Let’s just watch it come. It’s the first day.” So they did.

Roots already planted, she thought as they turned to make promises to each other. And from this day forward, they’d tend them, and watch them grow.