“So you’re ready to get married, adopt a kid, and live Happily Ever After? Because that’s what she wants.”
A smiled tugged at his lips at the thought. He didn’t care how young he was, and how much everyone frowned upon his desire to be married young, because he knew what he wanted. He loved Audrey, so much. Everything about her made him smile. She could bring him to his knees with one kiss, and he knew for a fact that he would love her for the rest of his life. When he told her that he felt that she was sent to him, he wasn’t just blowing hot air. It was the truth. He felt like his family in heaven handpicked her for him. Then they sent him to America, to Florida, and then to the Assassins where she was. What were the chances that their lives would already be so entangled with him being her neighbor and also being Lucas’s best friend before he woke up beside her? It was an act of God. He wanted them together. Tate believed that deep down in his heart. He also believed that he was the missing piece to Audrey’s Happily Ever After.
Her Prince Charming with some flaws here and there.
“Call me Prince Charming, Fallon. I’m hers.”
Fallon shook her head. “You’re so young, Tate, you don’t know what you’re doing.”
“Because I’m passionate about someone, I am too young to know my feelings? How is that fair? Because I know what I want, and found her young, that makes it not real? Because I feel that it is real. Didn’t you find Lucas at an age younger than me? Yeah, you two went through hell, but look at you guys now: blissfully happy. Don’t Audrey and I deserve that chance no matter our ages?”
Fallon held his gaze for a long time; the tension could have been cut with a knife. When he saw a smile tugging at her lips, he smiled fully at her. He had her, he knew he did. “I’m not going to hurt her. I promise you that.”
She ran her hands through her hair, placing her hand over her stomach as she said, “I’m trusting you, Tate. Don’t fuck me over.”
Tate smiled as he came around the desk, wrapping his arms around her. She hugged him tightly, and he finally felt that things would go back to normal for them. He had missed her, Lucas, and Aiden, and it would be great to be able to go back over there. It also felt great to have her trust. He wouldn’t let her down. He wouldn’t let Audrey down. He cared too much for both of them. Tate had no doubt that he was going to marry Audrey and have a family with her, so he had to have a good relationship with her family or things would always be tense. He wouldn’t wish that on Audrey, it wasn’t fair. He loved her too much, and he would always go to bat for her.
Pulling back, Tate looked deep into Fallon’s eyes as he said, “Wouldn’t think of it.”
Audrey sat at her kitchen counter, looking over different spots for Audrey Jane’s, when Tate finally arrived back home from his mystery errand.
“Awesome. You are ready and look really good, come on, we’ve got to go,” he said, still standing at her front door, letting the cold air in.
“You said you wouldn’t be gone long,” she said, grabbing her coat before rushing toward him. He gave her a quick kiss, taking her hand.