Chapter 141

Sometimes, I feel like the universe might be playing a cruel joke on me. But then he smiles at me, or makes me laugh, or I wake up next to him already awake and watching me quietly and I know it can't be a joke. Nor a prank. This is real. I have him just as he has me. He loves me and he is never leaving me.

I get up off the patch of rocks that lines the driveway lawn. Linc stops his car beside me instead of driving all the way to the garage. I like his awareness of me. I find it hot. He rolls down his opaque passenger side window and gives me a questioning worried look.

I give him a wide smile and his raised brow relaxes.

"Missed me that much?" He asks, gesturing for me to get in so he can drive me down the driveway to the house, unnecessary but great.

"Hi! Why did you take so long?" I throw my arms around him, feeling my heart do Its crazy dance that it only does when I am with him.

"Sorry, love. I was held up unexpectedly." He says, chuckling into my neck. I