I pushed Tucker’s face away.
His head snapped back.
I turned and walked out of the hospital room.
“Pres, what was that about?” Tinsley asked as I walked up to her.
I touched her cheek and then held her chin with my hand, like I always did.
I lowered my lips to hers.
I might have been in love, but I was still Pres… I was still the Rulz… and I was still going to make sure everyone fucking knew that.
Epilogue
She stood with her feet in the water, the waves gently caressing them.
I approached with quiet caution, a smile unable to hide itself.
If there was one bad thing about Tinsley, it was that… she made me smile too much.
When I touched her hips, Tinsley let out a playful scream.
She tried to turn but I wouldn’t let her.
Instead, I pressed my body against hers.
I towered over her.
It was like the exact moment we first met.
The moment after she saw me on the beach first and I saw her later. When I gave her the chance to get away from BFH.
But she was stubborn and beautiful and she stayed.
Now I had her all to myself.
And I had her for forever.
“I think you’re fucking crazy for staying,” I said to her. “After everything that happened. You just don’t listen. You just don’t learn. Do you, sugar?”
“Nope,” she said.
“So no matter what can I say or do here, you’re going to just stick around. You’re going to be a thorn in my side. You’re going to find ways to make me happy. To make me smile. You’re going to be a pain in the ass to the Rulz.”
“Yes,” she said.
I spun Tinsley around and stared down at her.
“I think I broke Kip’s heart,” she said.
“Better than mine,” I said.
“He was really bummed I’m leaving the guesthouse.”
“He’ll get over it,” I said. “He’ll find someone new to bother.”
“Are you sure about this, Pres?”
“I’ve never been so sure of anything in my life,” I said.
“You say that now. You’re just thinking it’s going to be nothing but us fooling around in bed.”
“Why else would we live together then?” I asked.
Tinsley pushed at my chest. “Don’t ruin this for me. I’ve never got the chance to pick out an apartment before. Or my own couch. Or my own stuff.”
“It’s all yours now, sugar,” I said.
“Pres. Are you sure about selling that house? That was your-”
“No it wasn’t,” I said. “My mother never wanted that house. She wanted a little cottage thing right on the beach. Never got it. That’ll never happen to you. Anything you want, it’s yours. Anywhere you want to live, we go. Just say the word, sugar.”
Tinsley let out a long breath. “You make it sound so nice and calm, Pres. So easy. Why do I feel like there’s another storm or something?”
“Because that’s how things go,” I said. “Just like waves. They never stop. Some are big. Some are small. But it just keeps going.”
“You know, you sound kind of sweet and soft right now,” she said to me. “And you’re smiling again.”
I gritted my teeth tight.
I looked around.
We were alone on the beach.
“What?” Tinsley asked.
“I was looking for someone to go fight,” I said. “Make sure you realize that I’m the same person. That the Rulz are the same.”
Tinsley lifted her fists. “Maybe you can come fight me then.”
“Oh yeah? You know we have a busy day. Sarah is waiting for us. And then we have to go see what the apartment looks like. And there’s plenty of places in the apartment where we have to make it our own.”
“Then I guess you better shut up and start fighting,” Tinsley said.
She started to playfully dance in the sand, throwing punches at the air.
I gave her a few seconds before I charged at her.
When I scooped her up into my arms, she let out a scream and started to laugh.
I ran right into the ocean, not giving a damn about our clothes.
Waves crashed against us as I held her tight against me.
“Are you going to hold me under the water, Pres?” Tinsley teased. “Make me suffer? Make me beg for my life?”
She kissed my lips.
Over and over…
I growled in the back of my throat.
“Maybe I just wanted to trap you in the water to see if you wanted to make today even crazier,” I said.
“How so?”
“We can go get married,” I said. “For the hell of it.”
“What?” Tinsley asked. “Are you…”
I dropped us both down under the water for a second and popped back up.
We were now soaked head to toe.
Tinsley quickly fought with her hair to get it out of her face.
She blinked fast and spit ocean water at me.
“Pres…”
“You’re the one, sugar,” I whispered. “You have me drowning. You have me begging. And it’s all for the same thing. For you.”
“So I have to choose between hanging out with a baby tiger and baby lion… or marrying you?”
“I guess so,” I said.
“Let me think about it,” she said with a grin.
Tinsley wiggled her way out of my arms and walked to the shore.
I stood in the water, my clothes stuck to me, feeling heavy.
Tinsley stood in the sand and stared at me.
Soaking wet.
Absolutely beautiful.
A wave punched me in the back, making me take a step toward her.
Which I had no problem taking.
Walking to her and walking forward…
That was the only thing that ever made sense in my life.
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