Chapter 50

Emma’s smile widened to a smirk as he regarded her. Lost in how many times he could have changed the course of their relationship by saying three little words to her.

“I only got mad with you because of how I feel about you, Emma. It was ripping me apart. I didn’t know how to behave around you or how to deal with all this crap inside of me. Over-emotional men are just snarky shits.” He softly smiled, knowing it was lame as apologies went, but he intended to spend every day making this up to her for the next hundred years.

“I get mad at you because you’re an asshole sometimes; nothing to do with emotions or love.” She joked, smiling widely with a hint of amusement in those gorgeous pale eyes. She moved to run her fingertips softly across his mouth again, drawing his attention to how perfectly they gelled. Each touch tailored to the other almost perfectly, and how she could weaken him so easily.

“We need to make this work.” Jake sighed. “I can’t walk away again… I do