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I peer down my nose, my lips bunched at the side “Hmm”

Squeezinghardness

“Again?” I ask “We literally just finished twenty ”

“I’ve got a decade ofyou to make up for,” he says

“Or you could spend the rest of your lifeit up to me,” I say “You know, since you promised …”

The playfulness leaves Wyatt’s face in an instant, and he sits up, keepingme with the intensity in his eyes

“Marry o, I promised I’d wait for you Now, I’d wait a lifetime for you if I had to … but now that I don’t have to, I can’t wait another minute I don’t—"

“—shh” I press ainst his lips “You had me at marry me, Blaire”

With that, I kiss my first love, my only love, my future husband, my best friend, my person, and my forever

“I love you so damn much,” he says

“I love you too”

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Wyatt

“Wyatt, what are you doing here?” Oliver Abbott answers his front door Monday arden before breaking off and heading this way to have a ith this twisted bastard

I proer person here and I’ more than to have me thrown in the slammer

He steps outside, closing the door behind him—not that I expected an invitation inside

“Where’s hter?” He peers over my shoulder

“She’s not ready to talk to you yet,” I say “I cas”

Oliver scoffs “I’”

“Blaire knows everything,” I say “And believe me when I say, this woman idolized you She had you on a pedestal” I lift ether “And now you’re about this big to her”

His pompous expression fades