Page 130 of Fly Back to Me
Cade.
I raise the metal to my lips, kissing the tarnished surface in gratitude. An ode to the divine future it granted me.
Until I’m tossing it over the guardrail.
My head turns back to Cade’s face, my mouth stretching asmall smile of victory. “I just need you.”
His eyes hold me for a few moments. His blue-gray depths are composed of shining awe as they bounce around my face, only for him to hoist me up by the backs of my thighs.
A playful yelp escapes me, my hands and legs coiling around his steel body before our mouths seize each other’s. Hungry and waiting, we fuse together in passion as we fall into a familiar pastime.
Our lips tear away breathlessly, foreheads melting into one another as he whispers, “I’m so fucking gone for you, Olivia Sawyer. So in love with you, it doesn’t even seem like it’s enough to tell you that. But it’s the truth.”
I grin, biting my lip as I stroke his rugged jawline.
“You gave me the extraordinary when all I knew was the ordinary,” he says.
Stripped of my crutch and ready to leap with the man of my wildest dreams, I answer him. “I love you, Cade Owens,” I breathe. “More than you’ll ever know.”
His chin tilts up as he scoots me higher around his waist. The rough pads of his fingers lace through my hair, his throat rolling when he says, “You called for me.”
I exhale on a smile, my thoughts retreating to that silly little note I pinned on that café message board. After some asshole refused to accept my apology. “You answered.”
Our eyes close as we press our foreheads together again, reveling in each other’s embrace before catching each other’s lips.
A kiss that seals our destiny.
We did it.
Two people who met each other for the first timetwice. Two people who held each other’s fate in the palms of their hands. Two people whose hearts spoke before their minds did. Two people whose paths tangled and untangled until the roads foundthe right map to become one.
Two people who saved each other.
In every way.
Two people who werejust meant to be.
Epilogue
Olivia
Two Years Later
Every October, Cade and I will choose a day to return to where we first met.
Cade straddles his bike in reverse, my denim-clad legs dangling over his as I sit normally. Our eyes connect under the thick sun rays, the smell of fresh leaves swirling between us. A sign to let go of the present season and prepare for change.
Good change.
My fingers trace the rose gold angel wings at my chest. A necklace Cade gave me the first birthday I celebrated with him. I fell even more head over heels when he gifted me the piece of jewelry. A piece of jewelry that rightfully commemorates how we were created.
The alleyway mocks me in my periphery, and just as my chest ingests a breath, Cade leans forward. He snakes an arm around me, snuggling me close to him as my cheek presses to his leather coat. I keep my eyes on the planter box in front ofthe brick. The golden yellow petals of the Black-Eyed Susan stare back at me, the simple vision drawing a tender smile on my face.
My chest tingles.
“What are you thinking about?” he murmurs into my hair.
The gentle friction of his lips swaddles a blanket around me. “How wonderful life is,” I say honestly.
