Chapter 393

• Jake’s here with me! We’re on the same page for once, and I know by looking at him that we want the same thing.
• “I love you,” he murmurs. “I think I’ve been in love with you for a very long time.” He smiles shyly, unaware of the devastating effect those little words and that smile have on my soul. My heart constricts in joy, my tears fall with happiness, and I instantly become a mess of emotions melting in his arms.
• “I … I …” I can’t get the words out and fall to pieces in a flood of sobs. I’ve been waiting so long to have him feel this way about me. It’s all too much, and the dam breaks. He wraps himself around me, burying his face in my hair, his strength and power holding me where I need to be. I could lose myself completely to him and know I’d always be safe, held like this.