"Of losing you,"shesaid.
"So you broke up with me so you wouldn't lose me? That makes nosense."
"Jude, look at you. You're Jude Morrison. I'm just some girl who got lucky. I was in the right place at the right time. You've been everywhere, done everything, you don't want some idiot the label thought was too fat to be the only girl intheband."
"Yes, Olivia, I have been everywhere, done everything, everything you know about me is true. What's also true is that I love you. I fell in love with you when I heard your first song on the back of the bus headingtoDC."
"But--"
"No, let me talk this time," he said. "I think all those years I was on the road, all those women I thought I was in love with, everything was just leading me to you. Every step I took brought me closer to you. I've gone through life looking for that one person who was going to complete my soul. I found thatinyou."
Lucky gulped as she tried to hold back tears of joy. Every word he said rang true to her heart. As her mind spun, he pulled her closer to him. He looked down into her eyes and kissed her lips, letting his lips linger. Wrapping her arms around him tightly, she pressed herself against hisstrongbody.
"I've missed you so much," she said. "I hated myself for what I did in New York. I just thought it was easier if I ended things beforeyoudid."
"It’s in the past. You're here now. Stay with me. I can't promise I'll let you leave though." He grinned again, still holding hertight.
"I'll never leave. I love you, Jude. Ialwayshave."
As they held each other, Lucky listened to his heart thumping as wildly as hers. She wondered how she could have been so blind to it before. He was the man of her dreams, and lately it seemed all of Lucky's dreamscametrue.
Continue reading to learn about Jude's past and see how he and Lucky are doing in The BalladofJude
