If you like music while you read, try “With You Til the End” by Tommee Profitt and Sam Tinnesz. It’s what I listened to while writing this chapter!
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~ JOHN-PAUL ~
It had been a helluva day. John-Paul had almost lost control at the Acknowledgment and shifted to challenge another male. He’d calmed down during his time in the car, cooled off, and focused on making sure they weren’t followed. But that heat had never dropped below a simmer.
Then he’d gotten excited in the helicopter because they were finally going to get some time alone and he was confident her family was nowhere near. And even if they figured out where he was going, they’d struggle to find it.
Then when they had arrived at the Lakehouse, he’d been hit with the emotion of being back in this place—his favorite place,
