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I glanced toward my“Guess we’re in trouble, huh?”

She nodded “Yeah I texted ot held up and, uh, were stuck at Brent’s without a ride home”

“Shit, really?”

“She was all about co for me, but I told her that I’d be hoo”

Monroe exhaled a shaky breath and her lower lip treo back to school and fall into your old life and forget all about me? What if all of this slips by as if it never happened and I don’t get the chance to be with you again?”

“That’s not gonna happen”

A tear slipped down her cheek “How do you know?”

I leaned ainst hers “Because I promise it won’t”

A heartbeat passed between us

“Nathan?”

“Huh?” I trailed kisses down her neck and it was hard for ht Hard for

“I love you”

“I know”

“Nathan?”

“Yeah, babe” I was reaching for herone more taste