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I turned my head in shock at the sound of the fa heart as Adam strode into the flat toward me He looked like hell with dark circles under his bloodshot eyes, and it looked like he hadn’t shaved in a couple of days
He was still absolutely beautiful, and the way he was gazing atout of his arm’s reach, was absolutely beautiful
When he stopped beforehis eyes closed as he pressed a kiss against it My breath caught as he opened his eyes and I saw the tears fro in their depths I also knew fro in his eyes that he had really meant it when he said he’d only waste a little more time for me As in less than twenty four hours
That’s hen he tugged me by the hand and drew me into the kitchen as he faced up to Braden, I let him Because in a few hours I’d discover whether or not I had the biggest fight of , the only person I wanted fighting by my side was Adam Gerard Sutherland We had a history, and I wanted to keep adding years to that history
"I need to tell you so," Ada fro to risk it for hter
Braden crossed his ar froain and I knew he knew but he wasn’t going to make it easy "Go on"
"You’re like a brother toto hurt you And I know I haven’t been what a brother would consider good material for his wee sister, but I love Ellie, Braden
I have for a long time now, and I can’t not be with her I’ve wasted too much time as it is"
I don’t think either of us took a breath as aited for Braden’s response After a aze softening "Do you love hilint of insecurity in his eyes Silly hter to reassure him and then smiled at my brother "Yes"
And then quite casually, as if Adam and I weren’t tied up in knots over his possible reaction, Braden just shrugged and leaned over to switch on the kettle "About bloody ti me a headache"
My muscles tensed in reaction All this tih pain and heartbreak these last fewhoe felt about one another
"You really are a know-it-all pain in the ass," Joss said for us all She pushed past him in annoyance and stopped to say more softly, "I’m happy for you," to me and Adam before she flounced down the hall to the bathroohed softly "She loves me really"
The bathrooain Adah hell, you cocky bastard"
Braden saze to ht for her She’s worth the fight"
Ada me into his side so he could kiss the top of my head "I know that better than anyone"
I closedout there that had added another blast of light into my darkness
For a moment I just lay there, my smile pressed into my pillow Not only had I awoken to the heat of Adaainst my nape in sleep, his heavy arht in between htness of reer than I had done in what had felt like a very long tih I knew from the look on his face he wanted to co with Braden, Joss, Hannah and Dec, quietly remained at my flat while Mum and Clark accoeon Dr Dunham was a pleasant man in his early forties who shunted the fear of God out ofto worry about" He assured us that the cause of the physical sye cist attached to two very s pressure He told us it had to be removed and because of its placement--on the surface of ery Like two percent risk He’d also told us that there was little chance of the tu to be cancerous but that they’d be sent off for biopsy to ery in teeks’ tih now that I had ti under the knife, the relief of knowing that there was a ht and not one for
When I’d returned hoive everyone the optiht there in front of my parents I was even more surprised to discover they weren’t the least bit surprised Aftere’d all gone next door to the pub to gather our thoughts and try to unwind from what had been theI sat in the pub with Adam on one side and Hannah curled into , I felt incredibly lucky as I gazed around at my friends and family
Mum and Clark eventually took Hannah and Dec hoive Joss soive me and Adam some space We ordered take ahich I ravenously ate since I hadn’t eaten anything for what felt like forever, and hung out on my bed We talked for a little while, but there was so ive us the focus we needed It seemed Adam was too because he disappeared with our leftovers and returned only to cuddle up to ht
Noake with softstrong and ready to take on anything, and Ada me
It was kind of beautiful