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Because what if we dated, and it did work out?
Two, I didn’t just have a thing for Grace. I was in love with her. Crazy fucking in love with her.
I’d been wrong. Loving her wasn’t dangerous. Letting her go would be.
Grace didn’t know it yet, but she was mine. Long before the end of summer, she’d know. And she’d know I was hers, too.
“Damn squirrels keep taking my walnuts.” “They do?” “They’re organized.” He wagged a finger at her. “Organized, I tell you. Next thing ya know, they’ll be goin’ for my treasure too. Find it ’fore I do.”
“Life is a series of seasons. Summer fades into autumn, but when the air gets cold and the leaves start turning, you always know summer will come around again. And you also know the next one won’t be exactly like the last.
I’ve had a long season of raising those boys and I’ll miss it when it’s over.” She glanced at me. “But the next season of life will have its own blessings, and I look forward to those too.”
I was grateful Asher didn’t let go of my hand because the weight of his words nearly knocked me over. My voice came out in a whisper. “How did you feel about me?” “The same way I do now.” He turned me toward him and looked me in the eyes. “Grace, I’m in love with you.”
I kept telling myself I had all summer to convince you to give us a shot and I needed to take it slow. But I just can’t. I need you to know. I love you. I’m not asking you to say it back yet. All I’m asking for is a chance. Just give me the summer.”
But damn it, Grace, what if it does work out? What if this is everything I think it is?
He was asking for a summer, but if I gave him so much as a moment, I’d have to give him all my moments. My heart wouldn’t accept anything less.
He was enticingly new and intimately familiar, all at once. He was everything. He was home.
This wasn’t just a date, any more than last night had been just a kiss. It felt like every road we’d taken had been leading us here, even when neither of us had known it. That he and I were as inevitable as the sunrise.
“Grace, I kind of need to tell you something.” “I do, too. But you first.” “I haven’t…” I hesitated, not sure how to say this. I’d never told anyone. “I’ve never actually done this. At least, not all of it.”
“Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I’ve never been able to separate sex and love. And you’re the only woman I’ve ever loved.”
She was my first love, even though I’d taken too long to tell her. And she was going to be my only love. I knew that now more than ever. Grace was it for me.
Do you think a squirrel could lift it?” “Not a squirrel.” He raised a finger. “But they’re organized.”
I didn’t know what tomorrow was going to bring. My future was once again hazy, the road I traveled shrouded in fog. But I knew one thing: I wasn’t giving up on him. Not now. Not ever.
No matter what happened, no matter how bad things got, Asher was mine. And I would always belong to him.
