absorbed in this moment, and I close my eyes, begging for it to never end, because in this moment I know without a doubt that I’m completely and totally in love with Nathan Daley.
***
Ten minutes later I’m still in bed, the covers around me, staring up at the ceiling when Nathan comes back to bed from cleaning himself up. He climbs inside the covers with me, now in a pair of basketball shorts and pulls me close to him again.
Being here with him in this moment is so much more than I thought it would be. I thought it would be amazing, but I hadn’t realized just how amazing until after it had happened.
I turn and look up and him, meeting his eyes.
“You’re so amazing,” he tells me, kissing me softly. I can see it in his eyes, how happy he is to me with me, how glad he is that somehow we could make this work in our own delusional world, because the truth still sucked.
The truth was that nothing had changed expect Nathan’s knowledge of the situation. I still wasn’t supposed to be with him, I still had all the same problems.
“Nathan, what am I going to do? We can’t tell people you know, we have to-“
He breaks off my sentence by kissing me again, harder this time.
When he finally pulls away, he shakes his head. “We aren’t doing this now, right here in this moment, it’s about us, and what we have to do when we get back, well we will figure that out. But this time together.”
“Together?” I ask.
“Together,” he says, playing with my hair. “You’re not alone anymore, Shell, I’m here. I’m here.”
I sigh, and allow myself to relax into his embrace.
Whatever lays ahead, whatever we have to do when we get back…I have the person who has my heart with me now, and maybe, just maybe, things wont be as scary with Nathan to fight my battles with me.
***WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN VICTORIA AND NATHAN GET BACK? WILL THEY FIND A WAY TO REALLY BE TOGETHER? FIND OUT IN AGAINST ALL ODDS BOOK 5! COMING SOON FROM KELS BARNHOLDT !* **