“Well, I’ve got a few ideas…”
He captures my mouth again, pressing against me in all the delicious spots I’ve missed him.
I have no idea how long we stay like that, locked together in a kiss. People come and go around us, but we’re lost in our own world.
When we finally come up for air, we’re both smiling.
“I love you,” he says, brushing a stray hair from my face. “And I’m sorry if that’s too much or too scary, but it’s true. If you need time, I understand. I—”
“I love you too,” I blurt.
His face lights up. “Yeah?”
I nod, then whisper…
“Hopelessly.”
Epilogue
Cooper
Five monthslater
“Come on,Coop! It’s pizza and movie night.”
“I know, I know.”
She huffs. “A goodboyfriendwould be in here with his girlfriend already.”
That little…
“The whole reason I’m still in here working well after business hours is becausesomeonekept me distracted this morning and I was late. A goodgirlfriendwould have let him work. This isyourfault.”
“I’m sorry, are you really sitting there complaining about a morning blow job?”
“Yes. When it interferes with my livelihood, yes. Someone has to pay for all these bills you run up, you know.”
She grumbles something I can’t quite make out, but I know she definitely calls me an asshole.
I chuckle. “Give me five more minutes!”
“That’s what you said five minutes ago.”
“Sucks when you’re the one waiting, doesn’t it?”
She growls, and I hear her shuffling around, probably grabbing her chinchilla blanket and curling up in a ball on the couch.
I hearThe Vampire Diariesstart ten seconds later.
I’m sure she’s sitting there with her sketchpad on her lap, hand flying over the page as she cooks up whatever ideas are brewing in her mind.
After the success of the festival, Carolinefinallyagreed to put her designs on the shop’s website.
The launch was huge and, much to her surprise but nobody else’s, she sold out in less than a day.
She now has her own section of the storeanda dedicated line on the website.
Basically, she’s fucking killing it and proving her dad wrong.
