“I never,never, stopped loving you, not for one minute, not even one second. Letting you go was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. I met some people who are still suffering and showing no signs of improvement. I had no idea if I was going to be one of those people, and I didn’t want to sentence you to the same type of hell I had to live in, maybe for a lifetime. If I had to do it all again, I’d make the same choice.”
“No, you wouldn’t because I’m going to love you better.”
Hunter’s heart pounded even harder. “Michaela?”
“I want the chance to show you that I can be the woman who won’t run at the first sign of trouble, the one who will be there no matter what, the one who will take care of your heart the way you’ve taken care of mine.”
A tear slid down his cheek.Damn! There goes my man card.It took all his strength to keep more from falling.
“I love you, Hunter Prescott, and I don’t ever want to be without you again.”
The tender kiss that followed would have knocked him to his knees if he’d been standing. Hunter hadn’t thought about kissing or anything else in over a year, but it didn’t take him long to catch up. He pulled her closer, angled his head and slowly, sensually reacquainted himself with the familiar sweetness of her kiss and reminding himself why only Michaela Saunders would ever be the one for him.
