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Chapter 19
A week later, Rhett held Kinsley’s mitten-covered hand as they strolled down Main Street, the snow blessedly giving the town a break The last three days they’d gotten more than three feet, andonly today Except for one Kinsley’s hand tightened around his as they walked toward her bar, where wood boarded up the door and the s While Josh had been located yesterday a couple towns over and arrested, with no one having any doubt the charges would stick, Rhett knew that neouldn’t give Kinsley closure She needed her bar to reopen to put all this behind her He’d seen the reports Fortunately, the fire departet the fire under control quickly The only da had been deeic shop and Peyton’s lingerie store to reopen “We’ll rebuild,” he said to her
Kinsley offered hiainst her white beanie and dark hair “We will” She stopped by the door and glanced up at the half-burned sign “Do you believe in fate?”
“You know I don’t,” he said “I make my own fate”
“I wondered if your opinion on that changed after all this,” she said, finally setting those gorgeous eyes on him
“Because we’re together, you mean?”
She slowly nodded her head, stepping closer until her sweet belly pressed against hiave us absolutely no choice but to be together” Her s hard in his chest “Have a one-night stand? No, still not together Okay, here throw in a baby Still fighting it? Bring danger, make you face what you feel Do you think we had any choice at all in any of this?”
He brushed his leather-covered finger across her rosy cheek “Do I think I had any choice in this once you set your sights on me?” His mouth twitched “No You are a force, Kinsley, warm as you are bold If you really wantedI could have done to stop that or you”
She laughed, leaning into his touch “You think I have more control over my life than fate?”
“Absolutely,” he said immediately “Fate would look you in the eye and run aith its tail tucked between its legs”
“I’m that powerful, huh?”
Cars drove by on the road, splashing up slush Luckily the snowbanks kept them clean “Your soul is your superpower” He dipped his chin and brushed his mouth across hers “And I’d die to protect it”
She reached up to finish the kiss, and he cupped her face, knowing that whatever life was before Kinsley told hi forward now It’d be better She had even brought him back closer to his family Mom called every day now to check in Soh those walls Rhett didn’t even knoere there And most important, she reminded him what happiness felt like
He liked it He refused to ever let her go