Page 178 of Tattooed Love

“Just go to sleep.”

“If you leave, I’ll understand.”

I kissed the top of her head. “Not leaving.” And I wasn’t leaving her now. Not now. Not ever. “Amber?”

“Um?” She was nearly asleep.

“I love you.”

“I know.”

My eyes went wide. “You know?” She had said earlier she would know if I loved her. She hadn’t believed me. What had changed?

“How?”

“I saw it in your eyes.” She moved over me, until she was straddling me. “When you said you would be my friend.”

“You saying you believed me when I said I’d be your friend?” I couldn’t believe that is what made her see it. Her mind was twisted.

“Yep.” She lowered her mouth to my ear. “Want to know a secret?”

I rolled my eyes. She was sounding more like her normal self. Her and her games. I gripped her waist and flipped her over, her back sinking into the bed.

My mouth went to her ear and I felt her skin shiver. “When it comes to you, I want to know everything.”

She wrapped her arms around my neck and pulled my head down to hers. “I want to revisit those girlfriend rules.”

Was she saying? Wait a sec… surely not? Had I got her back? I leaned over to the bedside table and turned the lamp on, needing to read her expression.

She was squinting from the light for a second.

“What do you mean by that?” I asked. “Are you saying…?” My words dried up, not believing my luck.

She smiled. “You’re speechless.”

I nodded my head. She made me speechless because the thought of getting her back had me speechless. I was going to wait until she was ready. I was going to take her slow but, at the same time, as fast as I could - as fast as she would let me.

I cleared my throat. “So, you want to be…” I needed my brain to work. It had stopped functioning properly as soon as she said the word girlfriend.

“Your girlfriend?” She finished my sentence.

I nodded my head.

She frowned for a second. “I don’t know if I have a heart anymore but whatever I have left,” she paused and the honesty in her eyes had me “well, you can have it.”

“You have a heart.” I leaned down and kissed her just over her heart. “I’ll prove it to you.” I smirked. “I think I want to add a few things to the girlfriend rule list.”

“Well, we can’t sneak between rooms anymore. It’s not like you live here.”

“We need to fix that.” I couldn’t be apart from her. “You should move out.”

“I just moved in! It’s literally my first night here.”

“Fine, I’ll just live here.”

“You can’t just move in!”

“Watch me.” I kissed her cheek, and my hand started to wander down that perfect body of hers. “New rule. We don’t sleep apart.” I had only had a small taste of what it would be like to sleep with her, and it was fair to say, I was not spending a night away from her, unless it was forced.

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