Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home (Magnolia Parks Universe, #3)

by Jessa Hastings

Asking her to marry me was the easiest thing I’ve ever done. Easiest decision I’ve ever made, if we’re gonna call it that. It was more like the undertow of the universe pulling me back to her. She thinks we’re in the stars but I just think she’s the current of everything and I’m always just drifting… Floating home to her. Sorry — annoying, I know. But you know me, I love her too much and a nautical metaphor always seems to be on the horizon. Should have done it years ago, probably. Maybe everything would have been different. Done it fresh out of school — bit unusual in our circles, definitely — it worked for Sam and Clara England though. They got married when they were eighteen and were embarrassingly in love until he died, but when you know you know. And I knew when I was six that I loved her. Didn’t know it’d be like this, didn’t know that loving someone this much can be as good as it can be fucked. There are so many things I wish I’d done differently, too many ways I hurt her that I wish I could take back. But then I wonder if things now are exactly as they’re meant to me to be. Because we’re meant to be. Not a question in my mind. It’s her. It’s always been her.

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