BRODY
Did she just say what I think she said?
“Did you just say you loved me?”
She bit her bottom lip, her cheeks flushing as she looked up at me through her lashes, “Yes,” Brielle whispered.
“Say it again.”
“I love you, Brody,” she whispered, the corners of her lips tugging ever so slightly.
“f**k,” I hissed, “I never thought I’d hear those words.”
My lips smashed into hers like an uncontrollable force pushed us together. I could taste the saltiness on her lips from her tears, and I desperately wanted to kiss her worries away. It would be so much easier to take her pain and take it on myself. I would bear the weight of the world if it shielded her from the ugly parts of this life.
Kissing her lit a fire in my body. My nerve endings felt like I’d been shocked, but the pa
