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His words warm me like a good cup of coffee or a shot of tequila and I smile shyly at first but soon I can’t stop my lips from stretching wide.

“Say it again,” I ask him and he swallows and takes a step toward me.

“I love you, Coraline. I love you more than anything.”

“I love you too, Harvey. So much,” I tell him as he wraps his arms around me and our lips crash down on each other.

His tongue pushes into my mouth and I open for him greedily. He tastes like mint and something that is all Harvey. His lips mold to mine and he backs me up until I hit the counter. I know that we would be breaking about a million health code violations if we did it in here but I still find myself reaching for the hem of his shirt.

And that’s when Max, my boss and Harvey’s uncle, walks into the kitchen.

Harvey and I jump apart and I can feel the blush heating my face.

“Hey, Uncle Max. Looks good in here,” Harvey says and I can see Max trying to hold back his smile.

“Thanks, Harvey. I just came to see if I could walk Coraline to her car before I left for the night but I see that you’ve got that covered. I’ll see you two crazy kids later,” he says with a smile as he waves and heads back out the kitchen door.

“Oh my god,” I groan and Harvey laughs.

“Why don’t you let me take you out to dinner and then we can head back to my place and I can check on your tattoo.”

“Right,” I say with a grin and he laughs.

“Alright, take me home, shotgun wedding.”

Harvey wraps his arm around me, laughing as he leads me out of the restaurant and over to his car and I sink into him. Into the man that I love.

FIFTEEN

Harvey

One Year Later…

I grabthe last few bags of groceries before my fiancée can. She glares at me slightly and I just lean over and kiss her quickly before I head up the stairs to our apartment. Coraline is still the most independent woman that I’ve ever met but she’s starting to learn that she can lean on me and other people more.

“Can you grab the door?” I ask her and she steps around me, pulling open the apartment building’s door.

I follow her up the stairs to the apartment that we just moved into. My lease was up with Rooney and now that he’s living with Sayler, Coraline and I decided to move in together. Sayler and Rooney live next door and as I head toward our front door, I see Sayler pop her head out and grin when she sees us.

“Did you get it?” she asks Coraline and my fiancée nods, scurrying into the apartment with Sayler hot on her heels.

“Get what?” I ask her but she just gives me a sly smile and grabs one of the bags for me.

It just had some cosmetics and shampoo in it and I frown after her confused as she and Sayler giggle and head into the bathroom. I let them go and head into the kitchen to put the groceries away when there’s a knock on our door.

“Hey!” I say when I answer and see my mom, dad, Aunt Indie, and Uncle Mischa standing there. “What’s going on?”

Uncle Mischa and Aunt Indie squeeze their way inside and I laugh, hugging my mom and dad.

“We were in the neighborhood and wanted to see if you and Coraline wanted to go out to dinner with us?”

“Rooney is supposed to be home soon too, right? We were going to ask him and Sayler too,” Aunt Indie says as I start to close the apartment door.

“Hey!” Rooney says, sounding outraged as I close the door in his face.

“Sorry, didn’t see you there.”

He glares at me but I was being sincere.

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