Time for me to give him the eyebrow.“You leveraged them against me. You showed them toher.”
“I showed her two pictures the day after your meltdown, when I told her I could make you say yes to being her campaign manager. I never shared them with anyone else. I never blackmailed you with them. I never even told anyone about us until that morning when I told Shae.”
This is something we haven’t really talked about. “Why did you keepthem”
“Because I selfishly hoped I could delete them when you called me and told me you’d move to DC and live with me. I was afraid if I deleted them I wouldn’t have anything left of you. I wanted to remind myself our week really happened. That you weren’t figment of my imagination. That I met the man who I wanted to spend the rest of my life with.” He sighs. “And then I never heard from youagain.”
His words shatter my heart once more. All the time I wasted by not overcoming my fear back then.
“Yes, I’ll move in with you. Hey, twenty years later is better than never, right?”
He slants his mouth over mine, taking my breath and worries and concept of time and shoving them out of my mind for a few sweet moments.
“Damn right it is,” he hoarsely says.
