Perfect Risk (Mason Creek #1) - C.A. Harms Page 0,65
her around to face me. She pushed against me and I held her tighter.
“You’re being a pain in the ass.” I continued to block her path as she tried to move around me. “You drive me fucking nuts sometimes.”
“Then let me go!”
She was a smart woman, but with me she was a complete moron. She honestly had no fucking clue. “I can’t.” Gripping her hands that where still attempting to push me away, I held her wrists firmly. “And I won’t, because I love you.”
Her fight faded, she lifted her head and her tear-filled eyes locked with my own.
“I am so in love with you that half the time I can’t see straight,” I need her to hear me, to feel the depth of my feelings. “Those feelings, they aren’t going anywhere.”
“I can’t compete,” her fight long gone and in its place defeat.
“You don’t have to, Sadie, there is no competition.” How could she not sense how I feel about her? I realize that was partially my fault, I should have told her what I was feeling long ago. “It is only you.”
“Every time I turn around I see you two together. Outside the station, outside Wren’s even in the coffee shop when I was supposed to be meeting you. Then she shows up to buy you a plant that—,”
“I thought it was from you.”
Sadie blinked, staring back at me so I continued.
“It was on my porch, she didn’t sign the card so I thought you’d left it there. And, yes, she did stop by the station, she said she made mistakes and missed me.”
Sadie tried to pull away but I grabbed ahold of her just a little more securely.
“I told her that there was nothing left for her and I, and that there never would be again. I told her that I was in love with you.”
“Wyatt.” She closed her eyes and I noticed the way her lower lip trembled.
“I told her that I’ve never been happier, than I am when I’m with you.”
One single tear dripped from her eye and trailed along her cheek. She gutted me, the idea that she questioned what I felt for her made me want to tell her more. It made me want to give her no other choice but to accept that my feelings for her were stronger than anything I’ve ever felt for any woman before.
“I love us, what we’ve built so far, what we will continue to build and what we could have together. Baby, you’ve got me imagining a life with you. You have me dreaming of shit I never thought I’d want but here I am getting all fucking sappy and dreamlike over a future that I want with only you. No one else Sadie, I only want those things with you.”
She was silent for what felt like forever but I know it was only seconds.
“Did you really tell her you were in love with me?”
Her eyes were bloodshot and it crushed me. Leaning in I rested my forehead to hers trying to pull my shit together.
“Yes.” Squeezing her body to mine I refused to let her get even an inch away from me. “Because I am,” so damned deep. “With me, you have nothing to worry about, that’s a promise.”
“I love you too,” she whispered back her own confession and I wasted no more time and kissed her. My heart was racing, my chest tight with emotion and all I waited was to whisk her away so that I could hold on to this moment forever.
I knew without a doubt in my mind that one day I would marry Sadie Michaels.
Chapter Thirty-Six
Sadie
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Hand in hand, we walked through the doors of Pony Up, where all our friends were already waiting. I felt lighter, less worried about where he and I were heading. Hearing him tell me he loved me was like coming up for air, like the weight of losing him was lifted off my shoulders.
Who would have thought that Wyatt and I would end up together? Not me, not in a million years, he was the guy that I’d categorized as the perfect example of what not to date. But the reality was he was always the guy I was meant to be with. I believed that now.
“So, you finally let her out of bed?” Anna reached out and tried to pull me away from Wyatt, only her gripped me around the waist and held me to him, my back to his chest. “You are