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Chapters (92)
  1. First
  2. Love Connection
  3. Zero
  4. One
  5. Two
  6. Three
  7. Four
  8. Five
  9. Six
  10. Seven
  11. Eight
  12. Nine
  13. Ten
  14. Eleven
  15. One Month Later
  16. Twelve
  17. Thirteen
  18. Fourteen
  19. Fifteen
  20. Six Months Later
  21. Sixteen
  22. Seventeen
  23. Eighteen
  24. Nineteen
  25. Twenty
  26. Twenty-one
  27. Twenty-two
  28. Twenty-three
  29. Twenty-four
  30. Six Months Later
  31. Twenty-five
  32. Twenty-six
  33. Twenty-seven
  34. Twenty-eight
  35. Twenty-nine
  36. Thirty
  37. Thirty-one
  38. Thirty-two
  39. Thirty-three
  40. I Have Never
  41. One
  42. Two
  43. Three
  44. Four
  45. Five
  46. Six
  47. Seven
  48. Eight
  49. Nine
  50. Ten
  51. Eleven
  52. Twelve
  53. Thirteen
  54. Fourteen
  55. Fifteen
  56. Sixteen
  57. Seventeen
  58. Eighteen
  59. Nineteen
  60. Twenty
  61. Twenty-one
  62. Twenty-two
  63. A Christmas Date
  64. One
  65. Two
  66. Three
  67. Four
  68. Five
  69. Six
  70. Seven
  71. Eight
  72. Nine
  73. Ten
  74. Eleven
  75. Twelve
  76. Thirteen
  77. Fourteen
  78. Fifteen
  79. Sixteen
  80. Seventeen
  81. Eighteen
  82. Nineteen
  83. Twenty
  84. Twenty-one
  85. Twenty-two
  86. Note from the Author
  87. Sneak Peek – To the Stars and Back
  88. Two
  89. Three
  90. Four
  91. Also by Camilla Isley
  92. About the Author

“I’ve misread a situation once before,” he says, his gaze open and sincere. “Only that time, I trusted a woman who told me her feelings for her ex were dead, until they weren’t. So when I saw you wanting to run after Paul so bad you couldn’t spare ten minutes to talk to me first, it all came back in a rush. I thought, fool me once don’t fool me twice. So, rather than having to hear you tell me you’d realized you were still in love with Paul, I ran away. Stupid, right?”

“Very stupid,” I agree, and wait for a little more groveling.

“But since I’ve left, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about you.” As he says this, he gently cups my face and turns it toward him. Diego’s hands are too warm, his eyes too green, and his mouth too close. “And I don’t care if you picked me off a catalog based on your sister’s preferences,” he continues. “I’m just glad someone in your family has decent taste; otherwise, I would never have met you.”

I remove his hands from my face—too distracting—and lower them to our legs without letting go.

“And you realized all of this today?”

“No, today’s just the day I realized how much of an idiot I’ve been… And after Blair’s call…”

“You decided to adopt a cat and bribe me with him?”

“The cat strategy seems to have worked pretty well.” He smiles down at the little cutie. “Have you picked a name yet?”

I stare at the tiny streak of auburn fur on the kitten’s face. “Cinnamon. I want to call him Cinnamon.”

“I like it.”

Diego squeezes my hand, making me look back up at him.

“So, what happens now?” I ask.

“This is the part where you forgive me and give me another chance.” He scrunches up his face in a cute, irresistible, pleading expression.

“I still don’t know if I can trust you not to run away at the first difficulty. We were only together for two days, and when you left I was so crushed… I don’t think I could survive you leaving again.”

One of his hands sneaks back up to my neck, his fingers caressing the sensitive skin just behind my ear. “I won’t leave you again. I promise I’ll face every fight like a man, without running.”

I frown. “You expect many fights?”

The foxy grin is back. “If you keep on being so bossy, I don’t see how we won’t.”

“I’m not bossy—”

“Yes, you are. You’re bossy, and stubborn, and impossible to deal with sometimes. But you’re also beautiful, and kind, and smart, and that’s why I love you so much.”

My heart stops. “You what?”