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I shake ret "It’s too late Dad sold the house already, it’ll probably be razed to the ground in a week"

"Not if the nener has anything to say about it" Emerson’s s about?"

He kisses ht it for you"

My ain, but I pull back,"What? I don’t understand…" I blink at hiet the money? Es, still grinning "I sold half the bar to Garrett, and your Dad will tell you, I drive a hard bargain I got it for a song"

My tears coht me a house," I whisper, a like that for me"

"Get used to it" E to love you forever, Juliet McKenzie And I’ you’re the only one"

"You don’t have anything to prove," I whisper, "You’re my hurricane, Emerson Ray I’ll always be yours"

AFTER

We stay in the cellar until the nextthe future across our nad skin When we eht of day, the store is strewn all across the property

"Oh!" I cry with disappointround, and the wreckage of roof tiles and storraphy studio is nothing but firewood, shelves thrown clear across the yard, prints scattered and dancing on the breeze

"Shh," E the scene "Don’t you see, it’s still standing It’ll take ht The porch chairs may be broken, and thesmashed open, but the bones of the old beach house are still standing, solid and true, ready to weather another hundred hurricanes

Unbroken

"Ready to get started?" I ask

"Hell yeah "He turns and givessmile This is et that smile, and those eyes, and so much more, a lifetime with the man I’ve loved completely since the day we ether into our tomorrow