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“I’m so tired,” she mumbles “I just want to sleep for a little while”

Her body goes lax in h my system I jolt her and silently curse when she whiround and thank God help is almost here

Unexpectedly, Jules’s eyes pop open and the amber orbs stare at me

Her voice is lohen sheI need to tell you” I have to bend my head closer to hear her slurred words “Theo isn’t… we’re not… married” I frown and look down at her Her eyes are barely open “We… we’re married”

Her eyes flutter closed again after that, leaving my world turned upside down, inside out, and suddenly very fucking confused

Seconds later, it’s like her words break a dam loose, and I’m flooded with memory after memory

The first time I laid eyes on her It happened just as it did in my dream

My uncontrollable need to knohat she tasted like and her breathy moan when I kissed her in the hallway of Ink Me

Talking on the phone to her at night and spending our days together as much as we could

What she felt like when she gave me her body for the first time

My unplanned proposal in the back of Ink Me

What I don’t reto take her from me The day ofmy parents about us I had put t

he deposit down on a house in Westerly, the tohere Jules wanted to go to college We were going to live there until she earned her degree, then co tohich would have worked perfectly because Dad would want to retire from the shop by then, and I’d buy hi care of last-minute errands A car swerved in my lane, and I didn’t have time to miss it

I glance down at Jules, seeing her chest odda married Not she and Theo, but she and I It was me she fell in love with It was me she had planned to spend the rest of her life with It was she and I who talked about having babies one day We both wanted at least three

Jules quickly became my life, and I know I became hers The love I felt for her, still feel for her, is dyna and fast It smacked me in the face and left me in a blissful euphoric haze One I wanted to stay in forever