by Casey Hagen
He laughed, and kissed her damp cheek. Everything he said to her he punctuated with some sort of touch. He didn’t know if he did it to convince her or soothe himself. Didn’t matter. He just needed to do it. “No, I’m a telecommuter now. I’ll fly in once a month. The rest of the time I’ll work remotely.”
“From?”
He pressed his forehead to hers and whispered, “I was hoping you’d share your place. You know, so I don’t have to admit I’m a complete loser and move in with my parents.”
“And if you freak out again?” she asked as her lips hovered just a mere inch from his.
“I won’t.”
“How do you know?”
He kissed the corner of her mouth, first one side, then the other. “Because I can look at them again. The fire that’s been raging for two years since their deaths is finally out. And that’s because of you. You didn’t make me choose. I was the one who tried to make me choose, and it was stupid because you welcomed them with open arms all along,” he rasped out, with the realization of just how damn lucky he was to be holding Bellamy in his arms after everything he’d done to her.
“They’re your family, so they’re my family,” she whispered.
“So, I take it that’s a yes?”
“To what?”
“Living with you, making love to you every night, midweek Chatter Shack make-outs, and those go well, forever?”
She jumped into his arms and buried her face in his neck. “Yes. A thousand times, yes,” she cried into his neck.
“I love you, Bell. Always.” The words were his promise.
Shane McGovern was home.
Home for good.
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ABOUT CASEY HAGEN
Casey Hagen pens her snarky, passionate stories from the salty air of Kennebunk, Maine. She’s a born and raised Vermont native, a New England girl to the core, with Ben & Jerry’s in her heart and real Vermont maple syrup pumping through her veins.
She’s the proud mother of three girls and a soon-to-be first-time grandma with an insatiable addiction to Fall Out Boy, and a new, rather concerning obsession with tattoos and piercings. Can you say “cool grandma?”
The inked and pierced grandma spends her time tucked away in her office, coated in cat hair, alternating between tearing her hair out trying to find the perfect words and being one step ahead of her three scheming fur babies she is positive are plotting her demise with every swirl around her ankles at the top of her office stairs.
She loves writing stories about real people, with complicated histories, relatable everyday problems, and giving them the hard-won happily-ever-afters they deserve.
And she thanks every last one of you who picks up one of her stories.
Casey is done talking about herself in the third person.
*Casey out*