Page 195 of Love & Heart Braking

“Happy?” I asked the woman who was my chosen sister.

She rested her head atop mine. “I never thought I could feel so… at peace. I never thought I’d get to stop fighting and stop hiding. I’m so happy that the word happy doesn’t describe the feeling. Does that make sense?”

My gaze drifted to Devereaux. The teams were switching, and whether he felt my eyes on him, or was simply looking for me too, my berserker’s cool gray gaze found me next to the bleachers.

The quirk of his brow spoke of bedroom promises. His easy smile and watchful eyes spoke of the kind of man he was.

Devereaux Vincori was all mine. Daily, that was the hardest thing to believe of all. “That makes total sense to me.”

“How did we get here?” Soleil asked quietly.

From the gutters of Mercury’s Bend to a baseball pitch in Durita through any number of obstacles. Telling our story to a stranger would take me a month, but my best friend knew every bit of it. We only needed one word to sum our lives up. Only one word that applied to her and Bain, and to me and Devereaux too.

I rested my head on her shoulder. “Together, Sol. Together.”

The End

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