Chapter 100

Chase’s POV

“Emma?” I called out to her. We’d spent the last two days together.

I spent every hour of those days reassuring her that I was there for good.

Meanwhile, my dad had been put under house arrest, meaning that we needed to go through due process to see him, or Emma’s mother.

“Yeah?” She replied softly.

“How are you, really?” I asked her.

“I remember the first and last time we had a conversation like this.” She said, turning in my sheets. They looked so perfect around her. Two days with Emma, and life was just what it was meant to be. “You were gonna propose the next day.” She said, I searched her face for annoyance, or residual hurt, but there was none.

“I had my heart in my mouth all the while.” I confessed. “It’s a thing with doing the right thing with the wrong motive.”

“Don’t ever pull that stunt on me again.” She said.

“I swear.” I replied. “Could you please sleep back? I was gonna do a ‘breakfast in bed’ typ