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I pull him closer. “The way you treat me has had me falling in love with you from the minute you stepped inside this very housethree months ago.” I push myself up to my tip toes. “I love you, Jordan.”

“I’ve never loved anyone as much as I love you.” He presses his lips against mine in the gentlest of kisses, but I feel it everywhere. The first one in over a month and the first of a million more to follow.

“You bought Wade’s house?” I ask, astonished when we break away from our forever kiss.

He wraps me in his big, strong arms, sealing me firmly to his chest. “Not yet. That was just a test. But I will if you want me to.”

“I liked your test.” I nuzzle into him, loving his masculine fragrance and strong body against my soft one. “What about your penthouse apartment?”

“We’ll keep it and stay over on nights I play in the city, and I like having my studio there.”

That makes sense. “I want to buy the house,” I confirm. It’s perfect. “Together.”

“Together,” he repeats. “I like the sound of that.”

“Me too.” I hold my ear against his chest, loving the beat of his strong heart that feels a lot like home.

“I can’t wait to build a life with you. Grocery shop together. Decorate our house and the nursery together. All the mundane shit. I want you at my games with the baby, where I can kiss you both before every game as my lucky charms.”

I jump in. “The press will eat our story up. I can already see the headlines.” That fills me with a hint of dread. They’ve been sitting outside the secure compound every day since my rancid ex sold my story.

“I don’t give a shit. If it means everyone knows you’re mine and you’re having my baby, they can write about us all they want.”

I love how possessive he is of me.

“I want to do what we did at my apartment,” he says.

“Have sex?” I blurt.

“No. But also, yes, that too.” He kisses the top of my head. “I want to watch the stars come out at night. Binge watch television series. And we can add new things like swim in our pool because we have a pool now and a home theater.” Which he’ll never let Wade hear the end of. “And I want to build a snowman every year with you and our children to carry on the tradition you started with your dad of keeping the snowman alive every winter.”

“Children?”

“We are going to have lots and lots of babies.”

After such a shitty year, his words settle my soul. I’ve struck gold with him.

But he’s not done yet. “Wade told me you liked Zane’s G-Wagon the other day. We should go shopping for one. It would be the perfect family car for us.”

“I want a white one.”

“Then I will get you a white one.”

He looks down as I look up. “I like the thought of you with my baby inside of you. Watching your belly grow month to month, knowing that our little jellybean is part me and part you. This is everything I ever wanted. More than I dreamed of.”

I've gone from being alone to being surrounded by people who love and care about me. It’s like a dream come true for me too.

“You’re everything I ever wanted,” I say.

“You’ve got me, baby.”

“I love you, Jordan.”

“Right back at you. With all my heart.”

CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE

Lola

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